# Upgrade to 2.0, unable to initialize plugins

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 13, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544 "2015-11-13T18:09:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![james\_mtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james_mtl/32/32330_2.png) [@james\_mtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james_mtl)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544/1 "2015-11-13T18:09:14Z")

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On startup ES looks for /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/head/plugin-descriptor.properties but can't find it. Is there a way to bypass or reinitialize?

```
Caused by: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/head/plugin-descriptor.properties
```

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### Author: ![james\_mtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james_mtl/32/32330_2.png) [@james\_mtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james_mtl)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544/2 "2015-11-13T18:26:51Z")

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Solution was to rm -r /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins

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### Author: ![selvaKumar.esra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/selvakumar.esra/32/5933_2.png) [@selvaKumar.esra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/selvaKumar.esra)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544/3 "2015-11-16T03:56:46Z")

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The folder is getting created again when the node is restarted. So the issue still remains.

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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: [November 16, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544/4 "2015-11-16T05:58:17Z")

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You probably have another problem . Create a new thread and provide details.

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### Author: ![zokratez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zokratez/32/5974_2.png) [@zokratez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zokratez)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544/5 "2015-12-28T18:20:37Z")

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In my case, the folder was not created again... I prefer run

> rm -rf /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins && mkdir /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins

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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, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-2-0-unable-to-initialize-plugins/34544/6 "2017-07-05T23:28:16Z")

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