Elasticsearch can't write to log files

linux logging elasticsearch linux-mint
4m1nh4j1 picture 4m1nh4j1 · Jul 26, 2014 · Viewed 36.4k times · Source

I would like to activate logs of elasticsearch .

When I run elasticsearch binaries, I realize that I have problems with logging : the configuration cannot be loaded !

Here is the output : 

~ $ sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
Failed to configure logging...
org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException: Failed to load logging configuration
    at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.log4j.LogConfigurator.resolveConfig(LogConfigurator.java:117)
    at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.log4j.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:81)
    at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setupLogging(Bootstrap.java:94)
    at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:178)
    at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)
Caused by: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/share/elasticsearch/config
    at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
    at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
    at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
    at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileAttributeViews$Basic.readAttributes(UnixFileAttributeViews.java:55)
    at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.readAttributes(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:144)
    at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileSystemProvider.readAttributes(LinuxFileSystemProvider.java:97)
    at java.nio.file.Files.readAttributes(Files.java:1686)
    at java.nio.file.FileTreeWalker.walk(FileTreeWalker.java:109)
    at java.nio.file.FileTreeWalker.walk(FileTreeWalker.java:69)
    at java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Files.java:2602)
    at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.log4j.LogConfigurator.resolveConfig(LogConfigurator.java:107)
    ... 4 more
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (node).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM warning: You have loaded library /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/sigar/libsigar-x86-linux.so which might have disabled stack guard. The VM will try to fix the stack guard now.
It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c <libfile>', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.

I am running under linuxmint 17 and using latest ES.

Answer

Jettro Coenradie picture Jettro Coenradie · Jul 27, 2014

If you installed elasticsearch using a package manager like yum or apt-get you should not start elasticsearch this way. Try to use the service: for instance /etc/init.d/elasticsearch or using the command sudo service elasticsearch start

You should also check if the logging.yml file is at the location mentioned in the stack trace:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config

Using sudo to start elasticsearch is not good, you could do sudo elasticsearch to run as the elasticsearch user, but I prefer to use the service call as described in the second sentence.

Hope that helps

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