why elasticsearch won't run on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I\'m trying to determine if the elasticsearch instance is running, but it doesn\'t appear to be:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo service elasticsearch status
 * elasti         


        

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue this morning. After much digging, we found out it was caused by an unsuccessful Java 8 installation. All was fine after Java 8 installation had been fixed.