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

In my situation I had wrong permissions on the ES dir folder. Setting correct owner solved it.

# change owner
chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /data/elasticsearch/

# to validate
ls /data/elasticsearch/ -la
# prints    
# drwxr-xr-x 2 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Apr 30 14:54 CLUSTER_NAME