Elasticsearch won't start because of Unrecognized VM option 'UseConcMarkSweepGC'

[geerlingguy]

Currently the role is not completing CI tests successfully—ES installs, but won't start:

# journalctl -u elasticsearch
-- Logs begin at Sat 2020-09-26 04:08:07 UTC, end at Sat 2020-09-26 04:10:49 UTC. --
Sep 26 04:10:48 instance systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: starting java failed with [1]
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]: output:
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]: error:
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]: Unrecognized VM option 'UseConcMarkSweepGC'
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]: Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]: Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]:         at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.flagsFinal(JvmErgonomics.java:126)
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]:         at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.finalJvmOptions(JvmErgonomics.java:88)
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]:         at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.choose(JvmErgonomics.java:59)
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]:         at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(JvmOptionsParser.java:137)
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd-entrypoint[4660]:         at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:95)
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 26 04:10:49 instance systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.

The error from the role is:

RUNNING HANDLER [geerlingguy.elasticsearch : restart elasticsearch] ************
fatal: [instance]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to start service elasticsearch: Job for elasticsearch.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See \"systemctl status elasticsearch.service\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.\n"}

See failed build: https://travis-ci.org/github/geerlingguy/ansible-role-elasticsearch/builds/730446020

Related: elastic/elasticsearch#62716

[Karimus]

@geerlingguy related to openJDK : elastic/elasticsearch#51361

[geerlingguy]

@Karimus - It looks like the main problem is my role is currently overriding the entire jvm.options file inside /etc/elasticsearch. All I want to do is override the min/max heap size, so instead of overriding the entire jvm.options file, I should place a file with just the overrides inside /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options.d/, so I'm working on doing that now.

[mourareaupro]

I still have the problem too @geerlingguy . i run
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml to update the repo and get the tag 5.0.0

• extracting geerlingguy.elasticsearch to /home/mathieu/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.elasticsearch
• geerlingguy.elasticsearch (5.0.0) was installed successfully

run again the playbook

TASK [geerlingguy.elasticsearch : Configure Elasticsearch.] ************************************************************
ok: [elasticserver] => (item=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml)
changed: [elasticserver] => (item=/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options.d/heap.options)

RUNNING HANDLER [geerlingguy.elasticsearch : restart elasticsearch] ****************************************************
fatal: [elasticserver]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to start service elasticsearch: Job for elasticsearch.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See \"systemctl status elasticsearch.service\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.\n"}

prompt output :

Sep 30 16:25:14 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: starting jav
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: output:
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: error:
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: Unrecognized VM option 'UseConcMarkSweepGC'
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.flagsFinal(JvmEr
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.finalJvmOptions(
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.choose(JvmErgono
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(Jv
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[25730]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptio
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Sep 30 16:25:16 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
Sep 30 16:29:34 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: starting jav
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: output:
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: error:
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: Unrecognized VM option 'UseConcMarkSweepGC'
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.flagsFinal(JvmEr
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.finalJvmOptions(
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.choose(JvmErgono
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(Jv
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd-entrypoint[26602]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptio
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 30 16:29:36 SRVLAPES1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.