Elasticsearch: Job for elasticsearch.service failed

Question

I am currently trying to setup Elasticsearch for a project. I have installed Elasticsearch 7.4.1 and I have also installed Java, t

Answer 1

Had the same problem with a small virtual machine. The above configurations were already set. The only thing that helped was to increase the start timeout. The standard systemd timeout was just not enough.

As a precaution, I set the timeout to 5 minutes as follows.

sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service

Added under [Service] section in elasticsearch.service file.

TimeoutStartSec=300

Activate change to service.

sudo /bin/systemctl enable elasticsearch.service

Start service again.

service elasticsearch start