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

First verify that this is the same problem with command:

journalctl -xe

If you see error like this java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class then do this:

My solution I got from here https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/57018

sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch

Add this at the end or beggining of the file

# Elasticsearch temp directory
ES_TMPDIR=/var/log/elasticsearch