# Gateway Startup Failed - Reason: Could not communicate with the gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-startup-failed-reason-could-not-communicate-with-the-gateway/81846>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [November 14, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-startup-failed-reason-could-not-communicate-with-the-gateway/81846 "2023-11-14T07:00:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shivam\_Mathur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Shivam\_Mathur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Shivam_Mathur)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-startup-failed-reason-could-not-communicate-with-the-gateway/81846/1 "2023-11-14T07:00:49Z")

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Hi, I am trying to run ignition gateway on AWS. I created a EC2 instance (ubuntu) and installed ignition. After setup, when trying to startup ignition, I got an error. Logs show:

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INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:25 | I [c.i.i.d.i.NativeLoader] [06:36:25]: Loading native library: temp/iec618503288703549368741798/libTMWBase.so
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:25 | I [c.i.i.d.i.NativeLoader] [06:36:25]: Loading native library: temp/iec618503288703549368741798/libTMW61850.so
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:25 | OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: You have loaded library /usr/local/bin/ignition/temp/iec618503288703549368741798/libTMW6 1850.so which might have disabled stack guard. The VM will try to fix the stack guard now.
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:25 | It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c <libfile>', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:25 | I [g.InternalDatabaseManager] [06:36:25]: Upgrading schema for module "com.inductiveautomation.opcua.drivers.bacnet"
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:28 | I [g.InternalDatabaseManager] [06:36:28]: Upgrading schema for module "com.inductiveautomation.eam"
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:28 | Nov 14, 2023 6:36:28 AM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:28 | INFO: Created user preferences directory.
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [IgnitionGateway] [06:36:29]: Finalizing cleanup operations on internal database...
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.OAuth2ClientManager] [06:36:29]: Startup complete in 16 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.EmailProfileManager] [06:36:29]: Startup complete in 15 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.PersistentRecordSecurityLevelConfigService] [06:36:29]: Started up in 0 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.SecurityLevelManager] [06:36:29]: Started up in 1 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.PersistentRecordIdpAdapterConfigService] [06:36:29]: Started up in 8 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.PersistentRecordIdpAdapterMetricsService] [06:36:29]: Started up in 0 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.IdpAdapterManager] [06:36:29]: Started up in 0 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.InternalDatabaseRememberedSubjects] [06:36:29]: Started up in 4 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:29 | I [g.OIDCProviderManager] [06:36:29]: Started up in 8 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:30 | I [t.m.provider] [06:36:29]: Tag provider initialized. Starting to load tags... provider=System
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:30 | I [t.m.provider] [06:36:30]: Complete tag loading in 110 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:30 | I [t.manager] [06:36:30]: Instantiating provider 'default' of type 'STANDARD'
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:30 | I [t.s.internaljson] [06:36:30]: Redundancy version token not set for provider 'default', will initialize to system version. provider=default
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:30 | I [t.m.provider] [06:36:30]: Tag provider initialized. Starting to load tags... provider=default
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:30 | I [t.m.provider] [06:36:30]: Complete tag loading in 56 ms
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:31 | I [i.UserSourceManager] [06:36:31]: Starting up...
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:42 | I [g.InternalDatabaseManager] [06:36:42]: Upgrading schema for module ""
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:36:43 | I [AuditManager] [06:36:43]: AuditManager starting up...
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:37:47 | I [A.S.StorageManager] [06:37:47]: Starting up...
INFO | jvm 1 | 2023/11/14 06:38:52 | I [A.N.NotificationManager] [06:38:52]: Starting up...
STATUS | wrapper | 2023/11/14 06:39:56 | JVM received a signal SIGKILL (9).
STATUS | wrapper | 2023/11/14 06:39:56 | JVM process is gone.
ERROR | wrapper | 2023/11/14 06:39:56 | JVM exited unexpectedly.
STATUS | wrapper | 2023/11/14 06:39:56 | TERM trapped. Forcing immediate shutdown.
STATUS | wrapper | 2023/11/14 06:39:56 | <-- Wrapper Stopped

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-startup-failed-reason-could-not-communicate-with-the-gateway/81846/2 "2023-11-14T13:41:35Z")

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> [@Shivam\_Mathur](#):
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> `JVM received a signal SIGKILL (9)`

Your AWS instance killed it. Find out why from AWS.