centos – Elasticsearch 7.17.0 not running in cent os 7

I installed elasticsearch 7.17.0 in cent os 7 . But i could not bring the elastic search instance up and running . Below is the exception seen in the error log .

[2023-11-24T09:05:44,263][ERROR][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] uncaught exception in thread [main] org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: sd_notify returned error [-13] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:157) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:77) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:112) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:77) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:122) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:80) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: sd_notify returned error [-13] at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.onNodeStarted(SystemdPlugin.java:127) ~[?:?] at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.start(Node.java:1280) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:335) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:443) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.0.jar:7.17.0]

ES yml file is untouched all set to defaults. inspecting code i could infer libsystemd.so.0 is being a made a native call

static native int sd_notify(int unset_environment, String state);

this method returns -13 causing runtime exception . This has something to do with systemd services but couldnt figure out whats wrong ..

EXpecting application to be up and running healthy