Connection attempt failed for Elasticsearch

[Rohit Dalvi]

I created this BitBucket server and when started it does show that the elasticsearch started, see below logs,

Starting Atlassian Bitbucket as the current user

Starting bundled Elasticsearch

Hint: Run start-bitbucket.sh --no-search to skip starting Elasticsearch

Bundled Elasticsearch started successfully

The output shows that the elasticsearch started when bitbucket service was started.

But I am not able to test the connection. Even when I do (ps -ef | grep bitbucket ) I do not see any service running for elasticsearch. 

[Rohit Dalvi · Accepted solution]

The issue was, I was  starting the server with  root user, for some reason the root user prevents the starting on elastic cache. I switched to the recommended user and the elastic search service started on its  own.