While you try to patch the problem itself, maybe an interim patch to get a more informative status would also greatly help. As for now, systemclt says the service is "active" when it actually didn't start and absolutely no information is available in the logs.
● elasticsearch.service - LSB: Starts elasticsearch Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/elasticsearch; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since jeu. 2016-08-18 03:40:52 CEST; 1s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 26542 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/elasticsearch stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 26549 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) When starting the daemon by hand, I got the YAMLException and a 130 error code, so I'm wondering why those processes are said to have exited with code 0. Regards, Pierre -- pie...@nothos.net OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A