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ElasticSearch Not Starting on Ubuntu 20.04 with 4GB RAM and OpenJDK 11

ElasticSearch Not Starting on Ubuntu 20.04 with 4GB RAM and OpenJDK 11

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technewwings • July 11, 2020

Hi I can see the error log like this

sammy@cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01:~$ sudo systemctl start elasticsearch
Job for elasticsearch.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status elasticsearch.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
sammy@cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01:~$ sudo tail -100 /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:178) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) [elasticsearch-cli-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) [elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
[2020-07-11T16:10:05,925][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives            ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cannot check if running as root because JNA is not available
[2020-07-11T16:10:05,926][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives            ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cannot install system call filter because JNA is not available
[2020-07-11T16:10:05,926][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives            ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cannot register console handler because JNA is not available
[2020-07-11T16:10:05,931][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives            ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cannot getrlimit RLIMIT_NPROC because JNA is not available
[2020-07-11T16:10:05,931][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives            ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cannot getrlimit RLIMIT_AS because JNA is not available
[2020-07-11T16:10:05,932][WARN ][o.e.b.Natives            ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cannot getrlimit RLIMIT_FSIZE because JNA is not available
[2020-07-11T16:10:06,321][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] version[7.8.0], pid[124014], build[default/deb/757314695644ea9a1dc2fecd26d1a43856725e65/2020-06-14T19:35:50.234439Z], OS[Linux/5.4.0-37-generic/amd64], JVM[AdoptOpenJDK/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/14.0.1/14.0.1+7]
[2020-07-11T16:10:06,323][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] JVM home [/usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk]
[2020-07-11T16:10:06,324][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] JVM arguments [-Xshare:auto, -Des.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60, -Des.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow, -XX:+ShowCodeDetailsInExceptionMessages, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Djava.locale.providers=SPI,COMPAT, -Xms1g, -Xmx1g, -XX:+UseG1GC, -XX:G1ReservePercent=25, -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=30, -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/elasticsearch-16716871485915090185, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/elasticsearch, -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/elasticsearch/hs_err_pid%p.log, -Xlog:gc*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=/var/log/elasticsearch/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m, -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=536870912, -Des.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch, -Des.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch, -Des.distribution.flavor=default, -Des.distribution.type=deb, -Des.bundled_jdk=true]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,655][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,655][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [analysis-common]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,656][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [constant-keyword]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,656][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [flattened]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,656][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [frozen-indices]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,656][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [ingest-common]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,657][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [ingest-geoip]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,657][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [ingest-user-agent]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,657][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [kibana]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,658][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [lang-expression]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,658][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [lang-mustache]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,658][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [lang-painless]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,658][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [mapper-extras]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,659][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [parent-join]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,659][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [percolator]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,659][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [rank-eval]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,659][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [reindex]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,660][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [repository-url]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,660][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [search-business-rules]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,660][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [searchable-snapshots]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,660][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [spatial]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,661][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [systemd]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,661][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [tasks]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,661][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [transform]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,661][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [transport-netty4]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,662][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [vectors]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,662][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-analytics]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,662][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-async-search]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,662][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-autoscaling]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,663][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-ccr]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,663][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-core]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,663][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-deprecation]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,664][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-enrich]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,664][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-eql]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,664][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-graph]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,664][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-identity-provider]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,664][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-ilm]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,665][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-logstash]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,665][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-ml]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,665][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-monitoring]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,665][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-ql]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,666][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-rollup]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,666][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-security]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,666][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-sql]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,666][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-voting-only-node]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,667][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] loaded module [x-pack-watcher]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,667][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] no plugins loaded
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,744][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment    ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/vda1)]], net usable_space [67.8gb], net total_space [77.3gb], types [ext4]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,745][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment    ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] heap size [1gb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true]
[2020-07-11T16:10:09,872][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] node name [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01], node ID [VIIMclatT62b7Hfg5Nl-TA], cluster name [elasticsearch]
[2020-07-11T16:10:16,388][INFO ][o.e.x.s.a.s.FileRolesStore] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] parsed [0] roles from file [/etc/elasticsearch/roles.yml]
[2020-07-11T16:10:17,153][INFO ][o.e.x.m.p.l.CppLogMessageHandler] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] [controller/124205] [Main.cc@110] controller (64 bit): Version 7.8.0 (Build 58ff6912e20047) Copyright (c) 2020 Elasticsearch BV
[2020-07-11T16:10:18,541][INFO ][o.e.d.DiscoveryModule    ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] using discovery type [zen] and seed hosts providers [settings]
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,141][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] initialized
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,147][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] starting ...
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,337][INFO ][o.e.t.TransportService   ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] publish_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9300}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300}
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,641][WARN ][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks    ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] system call filters failed to install; check the logs and fix your configuration or disable system call filters at your own risk
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,642][WARN ][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks    ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] the default discovery settings are unsuitable for production use; at least one of [discovery.seed_hosts, discovery.seed_providers, cluster.initial_master_nodes] must be configured
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,644][INFO ][o.e.c.c.Coordinator      ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] cluster UUID [Yt2MWu65TN2nbaMyiCmlGg]
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,665][INFO ][o.e.c.c.ClusterBootstrapService] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] no discovery configuration found, will perform best-effort cluster bootstrapping after [3s] unless existing master is discovered
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,848][INFO ][o.e.c.s.MasterService    ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] elected-as-master ([1] nodes joined)[{cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01}{VIIMclatT62b7Hfg5Nl-TA}{mTpu48uiSfOkS1J79tVQnw}{localhost}{127.0.0.1:9300}{dilmrt}{ml.machine_memory=4127444992, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20} elect leader, _BECOME_MASTER_TASK_, _FINISH_ELECTION_], term: 19, version: 33, delta: master node changed {previous [], current [{cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01}{VIIMclatT62b7Hfg5Nl-TA}{mTpu48uiSfOkS1J79tVQnw}{localhost}{127.0.0.1:9300}{dilmrt}{ml.machine_memory=4127444992, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]}
[2020-07-11T16:10:20,953][INFO ][o.e.c.s.ClusterApplierService] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] master node changed {previous [], current [{cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01}{VIIMclatT62b7Hfg5Nl-TA}{mTpu48uiSfOkS1J79tVQnw}{localhost}{127.0.0.1:9300}{dilmrt}{ml.machine_memory=4127444992, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]}, term: 19, version: 33, reason: Publication{term=19, version=33}
[2020-07-11T16:10:21,049][INFO ][o.e.h.AbstractHttpServerTransport] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] publish_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9200}
[2020-07-11T16:10:21,050][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] started
[2020-07-11T16:10:21,052][ERROR][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01] fatal error in thread [main], exiting
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native
	at org.elasticsearch.systemd.Libsystemd.lambda$static$0(Libsystemd.java:34) ~[?:?]
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:312) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.systemd.Libsystemd.<clinit>(Libsystemd.java:33) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.sd_notify(SystemdPlugin.java:126) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.onNodeStarted(SystemdPlugin.java:137) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1510) ~[?:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.start(Node.java:823) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:317) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:402) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-7.8.0.jar:7.8.0]
sammy@cyberpanel-ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01:~$
technewwings • July 9, 2020

@bobbyiliev

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Bobby Iliev • July 9, 2020

Hi there @technewwings,

What is the exact error that you get?

What I could suggest is following this tutorial here on how to install ElasticSearch on Ubuntu 20.04:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-20-04

Regards, Bobby

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