logstash-1.0.17-monolithic.jar wont run on RH EL 5.5

Description

I am getting errors trying to run the monolithic.jar on RHEL 5.5. I have followed the instructions and could have missed something but not sure what it is.

Here is my mylogstash.conf

input {
  file {
    type => "linux-syslog"

    # Wildcards work, here :)
    path => [ "/var/log/*.log", "/var/log/messages", "/var/log/syslog" ]
  }

  file {
    type => "apache-access"
    path => "/var/log/apache2/access.log"
  }

  file {
    type => "apache-error"
    path => "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
  }
}

output {
  # Emit events to stdout for easy debugging of what is going through
  # logstash.
  stdout { }

  # This will use elasticsearch to store your logs.
  # The 'embedded' option will cause logstash to run the elasticsearch
  # server in the same process, so you don't have to worry about
  # how to download, configure, or run elasticsearch!
  elasticsearch { embedded => true }
}

Here is the command I am running and the errors.

[root@Server1 logstash]# java -jar logstash-1.0.17-monolithic.jar agent -f mylogstash.conf -- web --backend elasticsearch:///?local
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: logstash.runner (unrecognized class file version)
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.7rh)
[root@Server1 logstash]#

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Gildas Le Nadan June 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM

Hi,

I had a similar issue with logstash-1.1.0-monolithic.jar and a RH 5.5 i386.

Fixed it for me by installing java-1.6.0-openjdk.i386.

Jordan Sissel December 8, 2011 at 8:08 PM

Ping? I will probably close this soon if there's no response - best I can tell the problem is caused by using a version of Java that is too old.

Jordan Sissel October 18, 2011 at 4:40 AM

Still having issues?

Jordan Sissel September 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM

Sounds like you're running an old version of java - What version of java do you have?

Fixed

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Assignee

Jordan Sissel

Reporter

Thomas Blevins

Labels

elasticsearchlibrary

Affects versions

1.0.17

Created September 26, 2011 at 3:22 PM

Updated April 19, 2013 at 8:19 PM

Resolved June 19, 2012 at 4:16 PM

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