# What would be causing this. java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: LUCENE\_5\_5\_2 on Elastic Search 5.3.1

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-causing-this-java-lang-nosuchfielderror-lucene-5-5-2-on-elastic-search-5-3-1/85613 "2017-05-12T18:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luckyj13](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luckyj13/32/24522_2.png) [@Luckyj13](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luckyj13)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-causing-this-java-lang-nosuchfielderror-lucene-5-5-2-on-elastic-search-5-3-1/85613/1 "2017-05-12T18:47:45Z")

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What would could be causing this error on ES 5.3.1?

```
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: LUCENE_5_5_2
        at org.elasticsearch.Version.<clinit>(Version.java:75)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput.<init>(StreamOutput.java:74)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.BytesStreamOutput.<init>(BytesStreamOutput.java:60)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.BytesStreamOutput.<init>(BytesStreamOutput.java:57)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.BytesStreamOutput.<init>(BytesStreamOutput.java:47)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder.builder(XContentBuilder.java:69)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting.arrayToParsableString(Setting.java:852)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting.lambda$listSetting$29(Setting.java:798)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting$2.getRaw(Setting.java:802)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting.lambda$listSetting$27(Setting.java:786)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting.listSetting(Setting.java:791)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting.listSetting(Setting.java:786)
        at org.elasticsearch.env.Environment.<clinit>(Environment.java:59)
        at org.elasticsearch.node.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareEnvironment(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:99)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.createEnv(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:63)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:58)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84)
```

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**Author:** ![Luckyj13](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luckyj13/32/24522_2.png) [@Luckyj13](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luckyj13)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-causing-this-java-lang-nosuchfielderror-lucene-5-5-2-on-elastic-search-5-3-1/85613/2 "2017-05-12T19:17:30Z")

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looks like there was a bad file somewhere, cleaned the folders and everything is running again

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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:** [June 9, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-causing-this-java-lang-nosuchfielderror-lucene-5-5-2-on-elastic-search-5-3-1/85613/3 "2017-06-09T19:19:54Z")

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