# Yarn start not starting up

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426 "2020-09-29T22:52:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![anjana1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426/1 "2020-09-29T22:52:07Z")

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i am trying to follow [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.9/development-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.9/development-getting-started.html) . But when i do yarn kbn bootstrap I get the below error. Instead of cloning I downloaded the branch.

````auto
[4/5] Linking dependencies...
warning " > @elastic/eui@29.0.0" has incorrect peer dependency "typescript@^3.7.2".
warning " > @testing-library/react-hooks@3.4.1" has unmet peer dependency "react-test-renderer@>=16.9.0".
warning "workspace-aggregator-bca0f563-b93f-46bd-9f2b-84e4ad131dae > x-pack > @elastic/apm-rum-react@1.2.4" has incorrect peer dependency "react-router-dom@^4.0.0".
warning "workspace-aggregator-bca0f563-b93f-46bd-9f2b-84e4ad131dae > x-pack > react-shortcuts@2.0.1" has incorrect peer dependency "react@^0.14.8 || ^15".
warning "workspace-aggregator-bca0f563-b93f-46bd-9f2b-84e4ad131dae > x-pack > react-shortcuts@2.0.1" has incorrect peer dependency "react-dom@^0.14.8 || ^15".
[5/5] Building fresh packages...

 succ yarn.lock analysis completed without any issues
ERROR [bootstrap] failed:
ERROR Error: Command failed with exit code 128: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- C:\Users\Anjana\Downloads\kibana7.9\kibana\kibana-master
      fatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet
          at makeError (C:\Users\Anjana\Downloads\kibana7.9\kibana\kibana-master\packages\kbn-pm\dist\index.js:26713:11)
          at handlePromise (C:\Users\Anjana\Downloads\kibana7.9\kibana\kibana-master\packages\kbn-pm\dist\index.js:25648:26)
          at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
error Command failed with exit code 1.```
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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426/2 "2020-09-30T04:26:53Z")

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> [@anjana1](#):
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> ```auto
> succ yarn.lock analysis completed without any issues
> ERROR [bootstrap] failed:
> 
> ```

Can you double check your node version and do a yarn kbn clean && yarn kbn bootstrap?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![anjana1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426/3 "2020-10-01T05:00:42Z")

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I had to do git commit --allow-empty -m "first commit"

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426/4 "2020-10-01T19:15:00Z")

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did it work ?

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**Author:** ![anjana1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426/5 "2020-10-01T19:26:29Z")

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yeah it went ahead ..

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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:** [October 29, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yarn-start-not-starting-up/250426/6 "2020-10-29T19:26:41Z")

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