elasticsearch not started on macOS - macos

Question

When I try to start elasticsearch on my macOS laptop, it does not appear to have started. So much of the answers I find on the internet do not relate to using brew on macOS.
See this command line history of trying to start it.
:>brew services stop elasticsearch
Stopping `elasticsearch`... (might take a while)
==> Successfully stopped `elasticsearch` (label: homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch)
:>brew services start elasticsearch
==> Successfully started `elasticsearch` (label: homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch)
:>curl http://localhost:9200
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused
:>curl https://localhost:9200
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused
:>lsof -i :9200
:>sudo ps -ef | grep elastic
501 85360 68989 0 9:51AM ttys000 0:00.00 grep elastic
Also using the Network Utility I see nothing is listening at the port 9200.
I am using Catalina Version 10.15.7 (19H1030).
java version "1.8.0_121"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)
My elasticsearch version is
Version: 6.0.1, Build: 601be4a/2017-12-04T09:29:09.525Z, JVM: 1.8.0_121
The location of the binary on my PATH is /usr/local/bin/elasticsearch
EDIT:
There was a comment to include any error messages or the output. If this was not clear, what I wrote is the only output. The only output to stdout or stderr from brew services start elasticsearch is "Successfully started elasticsearch".
However, when trying elasticsearch -d from the command line I get this:
:>elasticsearch
2021-05-24 09:33:08,875 main ERROR Could not register mbeans java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("javax.management.MBeanTrustPermission" "register")
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:472)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:585)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.checkMBeanTrustPermission(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1848)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:322)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.registerMBean(JmxMBeanServer.java:522)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.register(Server.java:389)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.reregisterMBeansAfterReconfigure(Server.java:167)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.reregisterMBeansAfterReconfigure(Server.java:140)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:556)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:261)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:206)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:220)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:197)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configureStatusLogger(LogConfigurator.java:172)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:141)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:120)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:290)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:130)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:121)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:69)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:134)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:85)
ERROR: no log4j2.properties found; tried [/usr/local/etc/elasticsearch] and its subdirectories
The /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch directory exists but is empty.
:>ls -l /usr/local/etc
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 marlpier admin 64 May 19 16:30 elasticsearch
...
:>find /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch
/usr/local/etc/elasticsearch
Maybe my jvm.options file is not found. Where should it be?

Answer 1

Answer was that brew reinstall elasticsearch was not working.
Doing brew uninstall elasticsearch gave a java error. So to uninstall java, brew uninstall java also gave a java error.
Answer to uninstall java was here by removing the java directory.
After that I was able to uninstall elasticsearch and then install it again with brew. Now it works.