I narrowed it down some. This script is broken for systemd. I had to
switch the box to upstart-sysv. Seriously, now that systemd is the
default, this package should be considered broken.
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Public bug reported:
Line 109 of /etc/init.d/elasticsearch has:
"test "$START_DAEMON" = true || exit 0"
That variable doesn't exist so the script just fails and tells you
nothing.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Get a brand new VM and install Ubuntu 15.10 off the ISO
2) apt-get install elasticsearch
3) /
