Upgrade from 6.7 to 7.1-auth failure

This seems to be your problem.

Something is preventing your cluster from forming correctly.
The node you are trying to authenticate against cannot access enough master nodes to form a quorum.

The cluster configuration settings were changed in 7.0 to support our new Zen2 discovery & cluster coordination algorithm, and it looks like something has gone wrong with your upgrade to the new settings.

Can you provide your elasticsearch.yml & tell us about how many nodes/what sort of node you have in your cluster?