Unable to load JNA native support library Elasticsearch 6.x

1. Go to /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch

2. Add ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djna.tmpdir=/var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp".

   (For newer Elasticsearch, use Djava.io.tmpdir instead of Djna.tmpdir)

3. Start Elasticsearch using systemctl start elasticsearch or service start elasticsearch.
4. You can see now tmp folder created inside /var/lib/elasticsearch/.
5. This folder should have execute permission for elasticsearch user
6. Check the permission with name i -l /var/lib/elasticsearch

7. Make sure the permission file have something like below permission

   dr-xr-xr-x root          root          /drwxr-xr-x root          root          vardrwxr-xr-x root          root          libdrwxr-x--- elasticsearch elasticsearch elasticsearch

I hope your issue will be resolved.

I had the same issue on a CentOS7 cPanel server with ElasticSearch 7.8 installed via YUM.As per the answer, I did the following:

1. Set ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Djna.tmpdir=/var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp" in /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch
2. mkdir -p /var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp
3. chown -R elasticsearch.elasticsearch /var/lib/elasticsearch/tmp

Check the permissions on your /tmp/ directory. It must have had noexec.

/tmp needs exec to support JNA. A workaround is to specify a tmp directory in elasticsearch sysconfig file.

Something like export JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=$ES_HOME/tmp"

Make sure there is a $ES_HOME/tmp directory and elasticsearch user has write permissions to it.

I had this issue as I was using a hardened OS and also because the default umask is 0027.