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Error: Failed to start ‘elasticsearch-service-x64’ service

Sometimes Elasticsearch service installation on Windows goes fine but when starting the service Elasticsearch, it does not start or it starts but dies after a few seconds.

If you’d visit the <ES_HOME>\logs directory, you will be able to see what is going wrong. You see error like the one listed below:

[info]  [12056] Starting service...
[error] [12056] Failed creating java %JAVA_HOME%\bin\server\jvm.dll
[error] [12056] The system cannot find the path specified.
[error] [12056] ServiceStart returned 1
[error] [12056] The system cannot find the path specified.
[info]  [ 9824] Run service finished.
[info]  [ 9824] Commons Daemon procrun finished
[error] [11336] Failed to start 'elasticsearch-service-x64' service
[error] [11336] The data area passed to a system call is too small.
[info]  [11336] Start service finished.
[error] [11336] Commons Daemon procrun failed with exit value: 5 (Failed to start service)
[error] [11336] The data area passed to a system call is too small.
[info]  [ 5180] Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.15.0 64-bit) started
[info]  [ 5180] Service elasticsearch-service-x64 name Elasticsearch 2.3.2 (elasticsearch-service-x64)
[info]  [ 5180] Service 'elasticsearch-service-x64' installed
[info]  [ 5180] Commons Daemon procrun finished
[info]  [ 8332] Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.15.0 64-bit) started
[info]  [ 8332] Starting service 'elasticsearch-service-x64' ...
[info]  [10816] Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.15.0 64-bit) started
[info]  [10816] Running 'elasticsearch-service-x64' Service...

Resolution:

If you did Elasticsearch DPK install, this error is most likely due to incorrect JAVA_HOME reference and if you did manual install of Elasticsearch, this error is either due to incorrect elasticsearch.yml file or incorrect JAVA_HOME reference.

Try the following troubleshooting options:

  1. Verify elasticsearch.yml does not have syntax or indentation errors. You can open it in Notepad++ or Sublime Text editors for better reference.
  2. Verify that the JAVA_HOME environment variable specified is correct.
  3. Verify that PATH environment variable does not point to a different JAVA_HOME. Elasticsearch needs a specific version of JRE to work properly and the your PATH variable may be referencing old JRE path.
  4. If it still does not work, try deleting your Elasticsearch service and installing it again. Run the following command under admin mode: SC DELETE elasticsearch-service-x64
Apurva Tripathi
 

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  • Rajasekhar says:

    Just adding one more scenario. This error may come If the JAVA_OPTS environment variable is configured already in the system. So remove the variable before you start install.

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