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

You already have ES running. To prove that type:

curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v'

If you want to run another instance on the same box you can set node.max_local_storage_nodes in elasticsearch.yml to a value larger than 1.