I have installed Elasticsearch 6.x in my Debian 7 (wheezy). I tried to start with service elasticsearch start but its give me an error message
root@debian:~# sudo -i service elasticsearch start
[FAIL] Starting Elasticsearch Server: failed!I tried to look at the elasticsearch log files at nano /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log, and i got this error
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,153][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] unable to load JNA native support library, native methods will be disabled.
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native library (com/sun/jna/linux-x86/libjnidispatch.so) not found in resource path ([file:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-spatial-$ at com.sun.jna.Native.loadNativeDispatchLibraryFromClasspath(Native.java:962) ~[jna-4.4.0-1.jar:4.4.0 (b0)] at com.sun.jna.Native.loadNativeDispatchLibrary(Native.java:922) ~[jna-4.4.0-1.jar:4.4.0 (b0)] at com.sun.jna.Native.<clinit>(Native.java:190) ~[jna-4.4.0-1.jar:4.4.0 (b0)] at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_151] at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) ~[?:1.8.0_151] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Natives.<clinit>(Natives.java:45) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:103) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:171) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:322) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:112) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) [elasticsearch-cli-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:85) [elasticsearch-6.1.0.jar:6.1.0]
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,212][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] cannot check if running as root because JNA is not available
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,212][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] cannot install system call filter because JNA is not available
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,215][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] cannot register console handler because JNA is not available
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,256][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] cannot getrlimit RLIMIT_NPROC because JNA is not available
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,256][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] cannot getrlimit RLIMIT_AS beacuse JNA is not available
[2017-12-14T11:25:39,256][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives ] cannot getrlimit RLIMIT_FSIZE because JNA is not availableHow can i fixed this ? i have installed java, and it's version javac 1.8.0_151
what could go wrong with my code ? `
7 Answers
- Go to
/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch Add
ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djna.tmpdir=/var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp".(For newer Elasticsearch, use
Djava.io.tmpdirinstead ofDjna.tmpdir)- Start Elasticsearch using
systemctl start elasticsearchorservice start elasticsearch. - You can see now
tmpfolder created inside/var/lib/elasticsearch/. - This folder should have execute permission for
elasticsearchuser - Check the permission with name
i -l /var/lib/elasticsearch Make sure the permission file have something like below permission
dr-xr-xr-x root root / drwxr-xr-x root root var drwxr-xr-x root root lib drwxr-x--- elasticsearch elasticsearch elasticsearch
I hope your issue will be resolved.
9I had the same issue on a CentOS7 cPanel server with ElasticSearch 7.8 installed via YUM. As per the answer, I did the following:
- Set
ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djna.tmpdir=/var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp"in/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch mkdir -p /var/lib/elasticsearch/tmpchown -R elasticsearch.elasticsearch /var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp
Check the permissions on your /tmp/ directory. It must have had noexec.
/tmp needs exec to support JNA. A workaround is to specify a tmp directory in elasticsearch sysconfig file.
Something like export JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=$ES_HOME/tmp"
Make sure there is a $ES_HOME/tmp directory and elasticsearch user has write permissions to it.
I had this issue as I was using a hardened OS and also because the default umask is 0027.
The same problem happened to me on Windows 10 when running from command prompt:
unable to load JNA native support library, native methods will be disabled.To solve this, it was enough to run elasticsearch.exe with Admin rights (Click Start -> type "Command" -> right click on "Command Prompt" -> select "Run as Administrator")
0For me below worked:
PUT your_index_name/_settings { "index": { "blocks": { "read_only_allow_delete": "false" } } }I followed below link:
On Ubuntu 18.04, the solution was
sudo systemctl edit --full elasticsearch.service
adding a line
Environment=ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp"
exitting with -x as in vi
restarting the service
sudo systemctl restart elasticsearch.service
Okay i have find the solution. Apparently my vm memory storage (RAM) was 1 GB - 2 GB, so i increase my VM's RAM capacity to at least 4GB and i reboot the machine. And elastic search started work just fine.
