Card #365 · Elastic (Elasticsearch / Kibana)
Elasticsearch 9.4.0 fails to start on CPUs without AVX/AVX2 support
Users are experiencing startup failures when upgrading to Elasticsearch 9.4.0 on older hardware or virtual environments that lack AVX/AVX2 instruction sets. The service fails to start because the native-image server-launcher is compiled with a higher -march target than the host CPU supports.
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Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
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§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
The current machine does not support all of the following CPU features that are required by the image: [CX8, CMOV, FXSR, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2
This looks exactly like a CPU instruction set mismatch issue rather than a service configuration problem. If the VM host doesn’t support AVX/AVX2, newer Elasticsearch/Kibana builds will fail to start
Currently, our virtual environment does not support AVX/AVX2, and we have also downgraded the Elasticsearch version.
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