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

For me, this problem was caused by the Elasticsearch Data and/or Logs directory being at 100% disk usage. Run df -h to see whether the directory your Elasticsearch process is using for data and logs has free space or not.