Elastic search not working on Mac OS: brew services start elasticsearch-full

[ajaythakor]

Whenever I try to start the service with the command: brew services start elasticsearch-full it gives me below error message:

elasticsearch-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.
Please report this issue to the elastic/tap tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core), or even better, submit a PR to fix it:
/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/elastic/homebrew-tap/Formula/elasticsearch-full.rb:68

I have tried brew tap elastic/tap also, it works fine but when I try to start the service, it stucks here.

[ajaythakor]

Also getting errors for: brew install elastic/tap/kibana-full

elastic/tap/kibana-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.
Please report this issue to the elastic/tap tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core), or even better, submit a PR to fix it: /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/elastic/homebrew-tap/Formula/kibana-full.rb:50

[me-v2]

❯ brew install elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full
Error: elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.

[ajaythakor]

@linpan Can you please send the full commands instead?
I will re-run the whole process for installation.
Just want to make sure I won't miss anything again.

[rimple-saini-new]

@ajaythakor Today I was trying to install elasticsearch using Homebrew by executing below commands & got error as Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.

brew tap elastic/tap
brew install elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full
Error: elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.
Please report this issue to the elastic/tap tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core), or even better, submit a PR to fix it:
/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/elastic/homebrew-tap/Formula/elasticsearch-full.rb:68

[rimple-saini-new]

This issue can be considered as duplicate with #146
It's PR is raised - https://github.com/elastic/homebrew-tap/pull/158/files

For me it is fixed by applying the PR changes locally!

[me-v2]

brew install elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full
macOS Sonoma 14.0 (23A344)

[dani-sanomads]

brew install elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full
Error: elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.
Please report this issue to the elastic/tap tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core), or even better, submit a PR to fix it:
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/elastic/homebrew-tap/Formula/elasticsearch-full.rb:68

[AbhishekIconicHearts]

Experiencing the same issue

Error: elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.
Please report this issue to the elastic/tap tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core), or even better, submit a PR to fix it:
  /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/elastic/homebrew-tap/Formula/elasticsearch-full.rb:68

[msr83]

I am experiencing the same

% brew services start elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full
Error: elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full: Calling plist_options is disabled! Use service.require_root instead.
Please report this issue to the elastic/tap tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core), or even better, submit a PR to fix it:
/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/elastic/homebrew-tap/Formula/elasticsearch-full.rb:68

[akshay-powar]

This issue can be considered as duplicate with #146 It's PR is raised - https://github.com/elastic/homebrew-tap/pull/158/files

For me it is fixed by applying the PR changes locally!

Thank you @rimple-saini-new this solution worked for me

[LMCom]

Stuff like this happened too often to me when I updated macOS. I will install macOS Sonoma after this bug has been fixed. When can we expect this PR to be merged into main?

[fish2000]

I also have problems starting elasticsearch using brew services start elasticsearch-full.

The command seems to return OK – but then I get a popup error message (twice):

The service, after hitting “cancel” twice, is not running. Checking brew services list makes it look like elasticsearch is in an unknown state, according to Homebrew:

… it would appear that jdk.app is either a build artifact (?) or some kind of symlink to the actual JDK (I am not sure, as I am not a Java expert). Just offering my two cents on this.