Elasticsearch, Failed to obtain node lock, is the following location writable

Question

Elasticsearch won\'t start using ./bin/elasticsearch. It raises the following exception:

- ElasticsearchIllegalStateException[Failed to obtain n         


        

Answer 1

the reason is another instance is running!
first find the id of running elastic.

ps aux | grep 'elastic'

then kill using kill -9 .
There were some answers to remove node.lock file but that didn't help since the running instance will make it again!