In the Sys V init scripts, we check for Java. This is not needed, since
the same check happens in elasticsearch-env when starting up. Having
this duplicate check has bitten us in the past, where we made a change
to the logic in elasticsearch-env, but missed updating it here. Since
there is no need for this duplicate check, we remove it from the Sys V
init scripts.
This commit addresses an issue when trying to using Elasticsearch on
systems with Sys V init and the bundled JDK was not being used. Instead,
we were still inadvertently trying to fallback on the path. This commit
removes that fallback as that is against our intentions for 7.x where we
only support the bundled JDK or an explicit JDK via JAVA_HOME.
Today our systemd service defaults to a service type of simple. This
means that systemd assumes Elasticsearch is ready as soon as the
ExecStart (bin/elasticsearch) process is forked off. This means that the
service appears ready long before it actually is, so before it is ready
to receive requests. It also means that services that want to depend on
Elasticsearch being ready to start can not as there is not a reliable
mechanism to determine this. This commit changes the service type to
notify. This requires that Elasticsearch sends a notification message
via libsystemd sd_notify method. This commit does that by using JNA to
invoke this native method. Additionally, we use this integration to also
notify systemd when we are stopping.
This commit adds deletion of the bin directory to postrm cleanup. While
the package's bin files are cleaned up by the package manager, plugins
may have created subdirectories under bin. We already cleanup plugins,
but not the extra bin dirs their installation created.
closes#18109
The deb package has been updated several times in the past to contain
overrides in order to pass lintian inspection. However, there have never
been any tests to ensure we do not fallback to failure. This commit
updates the overrides file given things that have changed since 2.x like
adding ML and bundling the jdk.
closes#17185
When Elasticsearch is run from a package installation, the running
process does not have permissions to write to the keystore. This is
because of the root:root ownership of /etc/elasticsearch. This is why we
create the keystore if it does not exist during package installation. If
the keystore needs to be upgraded, that is currently done by the running
Elasticsearch process. Yet, as just mentioned, the Elasticsearch process
would not have permissions to do that during runtime. Instead, this
needs to be done during package upgrade. This commit adds an upgrade
command to the keystore CLI for this purpose, and that is invoked during
package upgrade if the keystore already exists. This ensures that we are
always on the latest keystore format before the Elasticsearch process is
invoked, and therefore no upgrade would be needed then. While this bug
has always existed, we have not heard of reports of it in practice. Yet,
this bug becomes a lot more likely with a recent change to the format of
the keystore to remove the distinction between file and string entries.
* Bundle java in distributions
Setting up a jdk is currently a required external step when installing
elasticsearch. This is particularly problematic for the rpm/deb packages
as installing a jdk in the same package installation command does not
guarantee any order, so must be done in separate steps. Additionally,
JAVA_HOME must be set and often causes problems in selecting a correct
jdk when, for example, the system java is an older unsupported version.
This commit bundles platform specific openjdks into each distribution.
In addition to eliminating the issues above, it also presents future
possible improvements like using jlink to build jdk images only
containing modules that elasticsearch uses.
closes#31845
Finding java on the path is sometimes confusing for users and
unexpected, as well as leading to a different java being used than a
user expects. This commit adds warning messages when starting
elasticsearch (or any tools like the plugin cli) and using java found
on the PATH instead of via JAVA_HOME.
Currently init scripts fail when `/proc/sys/vm/max_map_count` is not present
with `-bash: [: too many arguments`.
Fix conditional logic to avoid trying to set the `max_map_count` sysctl if not
present.
Backport of: #35933
Relates: #27236
Some systems default to a nofile ulimit of 65535. To reduce the pain of
deploying Elasticsearch to such systems, this commit lowers the required
limit from 65536 to 65535.
This commit removes permission editing commands from the postinst
scriptlet. Instead, we now fully configure the owner/group (as well as
sticky bit) for these files and directories.
closes#37143
Currently is `java` is not in $PATH the preinst script fails
prematurely and prevents an appropriate message from getting displayed
to the user.
Make package installation more user friendly when java is not in
$PATH and add a test for it.
Also use a she-bang in the preinst script, as, at least in Debian,
maintainer scripts must start with the #! convention [1].
Relates #31845
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html
On some Linux distributions tmpfiles.d cleans files and
directories under /tmp if they haven't been accessed for
10 days.
This can cause problems for ML as ML is currently the only
component that uses the temp directory more than a few
seconds after startup. If you didn't open an ML job for
10 days and then tried to open one then the temp directory
would have been deleted.
This commit prevents the problem occurring in the case of
Elasticsearch being managed by systemd, as systemd private
temp directories are not subject to periodic cleanup (by
default).
Additionally there are now some docs to warn people about
the risk and suggest a manual mitigation for .tar.gz users.
So the issue here is that we want to avoid setting vm.max_map_count if
it is already equal to the desired value (the bootstrap check requires
262144). The reason we want to avoid this is because in some use-cases
using sysctl to set this will fail. In this case, we want to enable
users to set this value externally and then allow that to cause using
sysctl to set the value to be skipped so that cases where using sysctl
will fail to no longer fail.
The package installation relies on java being in the path. If java is
not in the path, the tests fail at post-install time. This commit adds a
pre-install check to validate that java exists, and if it fails, the
package is never installed, and thus keeps a system clean, rather than
aborting at post-install and leaving behind a mess.
Closes#29665
This commit modifies the Sys V init startup scripts to only modify
vm.max_map_count if needed. In this case, needed means that the current
value is less than our default value of 262144 maps.
This commit adds setting the homedir for the elasticsearch user to the
adduser command in the packaging preinstall script. While the
elasticsearch user is a system user, it is sometimes conventient to have
an existing homedir (even if it is not writeable). For example, running
cron as the elasticsearch user will try to change dir to the homedir.
closes#14453
This commit adds license metadata to rpm and deb packages. Additionally,
it makes the copyright file for deb files follow the machine readable
specification, and sets the correct license text based on the oss vs
default deb packages.
When upgrading via the RPM package, we can run into a problem where
the keystore fails to be created. This arises because the %post script
on RPM runs after the new package files are installed but before the
removal of the old package files. This means that the contents of the
lib folder can contain files from the old package and the new package
and thus running the create keystore tool can encounter JAR hell
issues and fail. To solve this, we move creating the keystore to the
%posttrans script which runs after the old package files are
removed. We only need to do this on the RPM package, so we add a
switch in the shared post-install script.
We no longer source the environment file in the packaging scripts yet we
had leftover references to variables defined by those environment
files. This commit cleans these up.
Previously we allowed a lot of customization of Elasticsearch during
package installation (e.g., the username and group). This customization
was achieved by sourcing the env script (e.g.,
/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch) during installation. Since we no longer
allow such flexibility, we do not need to source these env scripts
during package installation and removal.
This commit removes the ability to specify that a plugin requires the
keystore and instead creates the keystore on package installation or
when Elasticsearch is started for the first time. The reason that we opt
to create the keystore on package installation is to ensure that the
keystore has the correct permissions (the package installation scripts
run as root as opposed to Elasticsearch running as the elasticsearch
user) and to enable removing the keystore on package removal if the
keystore is not modified.
This commit moves the distribution specific tasks into the respective
archives and packages builds. The collocation of common and distribution
specific tasks make it much easier to reason about what is expected in a
particular distribution.
Jason Tedor
Ryan Ernst
Dimitrios Liappis
David Roberts
Ben Abrams
Michael Basnight
Van0SS