why elasticsearch won't run on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I'm trying to determine if the elasticsearch instance is running, but it doesn't appear to be:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo service elasticsearch status
 * elasticsearch is not running
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo service elasticsearch start
 * Starting Elasticsearch Server  [ OK ] 
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo service elasticsearch status
 * elasticsearch is not running
and

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch status
 * elasticsearch is not running
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start
 * Starting Elasticsearch Server  [ OK ] 
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch status
 * elasticsearch is not running
ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/elasticsearch# sudo service elasticsearch restart
 * Stopping Elasticsearch Server  [ OK ] 
 * Starting Elasticsearch Server  [ OK ] 
ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/elasticsearch# sudo service elasticsearch status
 * elasticsearch is not running

and

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ curl -XGET localhost:9200/_nodes/_all/process?pretty
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused

and

ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/elasticsearch$ sudo netstat -nlp
tcp6       0      0 :::9300                 :::*                    LISTEN      4413/java       

UPD

My elasticsearch.log:

[2014-12-03 00:00:02,161][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.12.03] creating index, cause [auto(bulk api)], shards [5]/[1], mappings [_default_]
[2014-12-03 00:00:02,617][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.12.03] update_mapping [logs] (dynamic)
[2014-12-03 00:00:12,737][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.12.03] update_mapping [logs] (dynamic)
[2014-12-03 00:00:17,587][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.12.03] update_mapping [logs] (dynamic)
[2014-12-03 00:00:18,842][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.12.03] update_mapping [logs] (dynamic)
[2014-12-03 01:00:01,430][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.11.25] deleting index
[2014-12-03 09:46:57,461][INFO ][cluster.metadata         ] [Zero] [logstash-2014.12.03] update_mapping [logs] (dynamic)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27273998/why-elasticsearch-wont-run-on-ubuntu-14-04

Answer 1

Elasticsearch service init script doesn't print any error information on console or log file when it fails to startup, instead it ridiculously shows [OK].

You have to run elaticsearch manually with the same user and same parameters as what the init script does to check what's going wrong. The error message will be printed on console.

On my Ubuntu 14.10 with elasticsearch-1.4.1.deb installed, without any path changed, the command to run elastisearch is:

sudo -u elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -d -p /var/run/elasticsearch.pid --default.config=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml --default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch --default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch --default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch --default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch

I just added a line into /etc/init.d/elasticsearch to print out the above command:

# Start Daemon
log_daemon_msg "sudo -u $ES_USER $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS"    # <-- Add this line
start-stop-daemon --start -b --user "$ES_USER" -c "$ES_USER" --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
log_end_msg $?