elasticsearch systemd service failing

linux service elasticsearch systemd ubuntu-14.10
Sébastien picture Sébastien · Apr 13, 2015 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

I have just switched to systemd on my linux 14.10 and now my elasticsearch service is not starting properly

elasticsearch.service             loaded failed failed

a systemctl status gives me the following :

elasticsearch.service - Starts and stops a single elasticsearch instance on this system
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-04-13 23:23:54 CEST; 4s ago
     Docs: http://www.elasticsearch.org
  Process: 1227 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -Des.default.config=$CONF_FILE -Des.default.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.default.path.logs=$LOG_DIR -Des.default.path.data=$DATA_DIR -Des.default.path.work=$WORK_DIR -Des.default.path.conf=$CONF_DIR (code=exited, status=3)
 Main PID: 1227 (code=exited, status=3)

I have no experience in terms of managing services and I am pretty new to systemd so I don't see how I can resolve this.

Can someone point me in the right direction ? Thanks !

Answer

Sébastien picture Sébastien · Apr 13, 2015

Allright, i got it solved by removing the elasticsearch.service file, disabling the service and reinstalling this:

sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
sudo /bin/systemctl start elasticsearch.service

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