Failed to deploy Elastic Search due to "Unable to load index mapping for io.fabric8.elasticsearch.kibana.mapping.empty. The key was not in the settings or it specified a file that does not exists."

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Issue

  • Elastic search re-deployment failed after cleaning up storage
  • The following error is present in the log file:
[INFO ][container.run            ] ES_JAVA_OPTS: '-Dmapper.allow_dots_in_name=true -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m'
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to load index mapping for io.fabric8.elasticsearch.kibana.mapping.empty.  The key was not in the settings or it specified a file that does not exists.
    at io.fabric8.elasticsearch.plugin.kibana.IndexMappingLoader.loadMapping(IndexMappingLoader.java:56)
    at io.fabric8.elasticsearch.plugin.kibana.IndexMappingLoader.<init>(IndexMappingLoader.java:42)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    at <<<guice>>>
    at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.<init>(Node.java:213)
    at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.<init>(Node.java:140)
    at org.elasticsearch.node.NodeBuilder.build(NodeBuilder.java:143)
    at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:194)
    at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:286)
    at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:45)

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5.5.15
  • Kubernetes v1.5.2+43a9be4
  • etcd 3.1.0

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