I have traced this issue to the source here wardenenv/images#86.
Some versions of elasticsearch are failing to boot with
2026-02-17 09:07:21,994 main ERROR Could not reconfigure JMX java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "jdk.internal.platform.CgroupInfo.getMountPoint()" because "anyController" is null
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "jdk.internal.platform.CgroupInfo.getMountPoint()" because "anyController" is null
at java.base/jdk.internal.platform.cgroupv2.CgroupV2Subsystem.getInstance(CgroupV2Subsystem.java:81)
Raising here for visibility, for anyone else seeing that their tests were failing.