Bug#829078: elasticsearch: service does not start (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError)

[tony mancill]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:40:21AM +0200, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> Package: elasticsearch
> Version: 1.7.5-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Elasticsearch fails to start on a clean environment. After setting 
> START_DAEMON=true in /etc/default/elasticsearch. Startup fails because 
> of a missing class exception. The following log was obtained by removing -b
> from start-stop-daemon in the initscript:
> 
>  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/elasticsearch/common/jackson/dataformat/yaml/snakeyaml/error/YAMLException
>          at org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLFactory._createParser(YAMLFactory.java:426)
>          at org.elasticsearch.common.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLFactory.createParser(YAMLFactory.java:327)
>          at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.yaml.YamlXContent.createParser(YamlXContent.java:90)

Hi Apollon,

Thank you for the bug report.  This appears to be related to the recent
update of jackson-dataformat-yaml to upstream version 2.7.

I am working on a patch.

Cheers,
tony
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