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My brew installed elasticsearch-full started failing with error:

Unrecognized VM option 'UseConcMarkSweepGC'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.

macOS 10.15.7

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My config ended up having some old settings, so I had to comment out the lines under GC configuration:

# /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options

## GC configuration
#-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
#-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75
#-XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly
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  • This did it for me, Thanks! – SupaIrish Dec 14 '20 at 05:45
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    Thank you! This worked for me too, and then I hit a new snag on the relative path for the GC log files which was resolved in this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57479986/elasticsearch-7-3-homebrew – Michelin Man Jan 10 '21 at 14:01
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There should be default configuration files in /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch.

I suggest to backup your current configuration files, replace it with the defaults (which also should be up2date) and apply your special configuration if required.

cd /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch
cp elasticsearch.yml elasticsearch.yml.bck
cp elasticsearch.yml.default elasticsearch.yml
cp jvm.options jvm.options.bck
cp jvm.options.default jvm.options
cp log4j2.properties log4j2.properties.bck
cp log4j2.properties.default log4j2.properties

eddie[elasticsearch]$ ls -la
total 112
drwxr-xr-x  12 eddie  admin    384 Dec  7 12:18 .
drwxrwxr-x  39 eddie  admin   1248 Dec  6 15:22 ..
-rw-rw----   1 eddie  admin    199 Oct 27 14:16 elasticsearch.keystore
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   2872 Dec  7 12:18 elasticsearch.yml
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   2872 Dec  6 15:22 elasticsearch.yml.default
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   3058 Dec  7 12:18 elasticsearch.yml.bck
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   2357 Dec  7 12:17 jvm.options
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   2357 Dec  6 15:22 jvm.options.default
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   2892 Dec  7 12:17 jvm.options.bck
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin  11021 Dec  7 12:18 log4j2.properties
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin  11021 Dec  6 15:22 log4j2.properties.default
-rw-r-----   1 eddie  admin   3992 Dec  7 12:18 log4j2.properties.bck
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