# Unknown setting foreground

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-setting-foreground/42279>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 19, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-setting-foreground/42279 "2016-02-19T21:22:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sreeramjayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@sreeramjayan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sreeramjayan)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-setting-foreground/42279/1 "2016-02-19T21:22:04Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to build the elastic search source, for the first time, and receive the following error:  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [foreground]

This is happening when I add -Des.foreground=yes as one of the VM options. Has this property been renamed?

The full stack trace is:  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [foreground]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:227)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:216)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsModule.configure(SettingsModule.java:59)  
at \<\<\>\>  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:222)  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:154)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:188)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:283)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:37)  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)  
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)  
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)  
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)  
Refer to the log for complete error details.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-setting-foreground/42279/2 "2016-02-19T22:02:48Z")

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This option doesn't exist anymore.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-setting-foreground/42279/3 "2017-07-05T23:14:46Z")

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