* Gillu: >> We never shipped 0.90.7 within Debian -- am I assuming correctly that >> you used the .deb files provided by upstream? > > Yes, this is very likely. I must have forgot this, apologies for not > mentioning it before. This must be it.
No worries. :-) >> What output do you get when you run something like the following? > I've attached the output. Looks like the lock location is owned by > root and is thus not writable. Am I correct to assume that > /usr/share/elasticsearch/data should be owned by elasticsearch? Not quite. Debian's package adheres to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: Data that may be written to does not belong into /usr/. ,---- | {1.0.3}: Initialization Failed ... | - ElasticsearchIllegalStateException[Failed to obtain node lock, is the following location writable?: [/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/elasticsearch]] | IOException[failed to obtain lock on /usr/share/elasticsearch/data/elasticsearch/nodes/49] | IOException[Cannot create directory: /usr/share/elasticsearch/data/elasticsearch/nodes/49] `---- We don't actually ship a /usr/share/elasticsearch/data directory -- the data is put into /var/lib/elasticsearch instead. Please check if you have path.data set in your elasticsearch.yml. Cheers, -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org