can't start elastic search on CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)

[ajithcofficial]

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ whoami
ajith
[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ id -u ajith
1000
[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ id -g ajith
1000

userid is same as specified in .env file

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ cat .env 
COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=pelias
DOCKER_USER=1000
DATA_DIR=/data
[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ 

I executed the following commands in the given order to setup a pelias geocoder.

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ sudo mkdir /code /data

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ sudo chown 1000:1000 /code /data

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ cd /code

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ git clone https://github.com/pelias/docker.git

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ cd docker

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ sudo ln -sf "$(pwd)/pelias" /usr/local/bin/pelias

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ cd projects/portland-metro

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ sed -i '/DATA_DIR/d' .env

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ echo 'DATA_DIR=/data' >> .env

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ mkdir -p /data/elasticsearch/data

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ mkdir -p /usr/share/elasticsearch/data

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ pelias compose pull

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ pelias elastic start

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ pelias elastic wait
waiting for elasticsearch service to come up
..........................................^C
[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ 

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ pelias compose ps
        Name                   Command             State      Ports
-------------------------------------------------------------------
pelias_elasticsearch   /bin/bash bin/es-docker   Restarting        
[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ 

[ajith@barinlab portland-metro]$ pelias compose logs
Attaching to pelias_elasticsearch
elasticsearch_1  | [2018-11-02T17:39:55,876][WARN ][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [] uncaught exception in thread [main]
elasticsearch_1  | org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.data' (/usr/share/elasticsearch/data)
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:70) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:134) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.data' (/usr/share/elasticsearch/data)
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addPath(Security.java:450) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addFilePermissions(Security.java:291) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.createPermissions(Security.java:246) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.configure(Security.java:119) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:228) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:342) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:132) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.12.jar:5.6.12]
elasticsearch_1  | 	... 6 more
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What step I had missed? Why I cant start elastic search? please help...

Originally posted by @ajithcofficial in #33 (comment)

[orangejulius]

Hi @ajithcofficial,
Your script looks correct, so I think we have a legitimate mystery here. I have a couple ideas of things to try:

• poke around with docker exec inside the elasticsearch container and see if anything doesn't look right
• Try with ES2 (remove the version from the end of https://github.com/pelias/docker/blob/master/projects/portland-metro/docker-compose.yml#L98)
• Try on a clean Ubuntu machine

Let me know if you find anything interesting

[orangejulius]

Hi @ajithcofficial,
Did you ever discover anything?

We are interested in making our docker setup as resilient as possible, so if you did, please let us know.

Thanks!