Elastic Search startup error - “\Common was unexpected at this time.”

Question

I have downloaded and extracted elasticsearch and when I run the batch file \"elasticsearch.bat\' I am getting the following error.

\"\\Common was unexpected at         


        

Answer 1

I solved this by editing my Environment Variables - System variables - variable named CLASSPATH. The variable contained

;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\EMC\ExJNIAPIGateway.jar

I quoted this

;"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\EMC\ExJNIAPIGateway.jar"

Everything ran smoothly afterwards. I don't really know what corporate software that jar file relates to, but I'm not bothered if it stops working on my PC.