# ALLOCATION\_FAILED engine failure, reason \[search execution corruption failure\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 27, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498 "2016-04-27T02:24:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![haochun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/haochun/32/24701_2.png) [@haochun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/haochun)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498/1 "2016-04-27T02:24:56Z")

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"reason": "ALLOCATION\_FAILED",  
"at": "2016-04-13T02:37:23.700Z",  
"details": "shard failure [engine failure, reason [search execution corruption failure]][FetchPhaseExecutionException[[similar][28]: query[xxxxx],from[0],size[15]: Fetch Failed [Failed to fetch doc id [75969170]]]; nested: CorruptIndexException[Corrupted: docID=75969170, docBase=9520954, chunkDocs=34, numDocs=682343722 (resource=NIOFSIndexInput(path="/ssd/elasticsearch/data/elastic/nodes/0/indices/index/28/index/\_16oi.fdt"))]; ]"

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**Author:** ![haochun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/haochun/32/24701_2.png) [@haochun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/haochun)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498/2 "2016-04-27T02:35:28Z")

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Is there some one know why,one shard can not allocation

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498/3 "2016-04-27T02:51:06Z")

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As it says, you have a corrupted file.

What version are you on?

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**Author:** ![haochun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/haochun/32/24701_2.png) [@haochun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/haochun)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498/4 "2016-04-27T03:29:35Z")

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@warkolm my version is 1.7.3,i know there is a corrupted file.but,i do not know [why.it](http://why.it) says there is a query occured this problem.

engine failure, reason [search execution corruption failure]][FetchPhaseExecutionException[[similar][28]: query[xxxxx],from[0],size[15]: Fetch Failed [Failed to fetch doc id [75969170]]];

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocation-failed-engine-failure-reason-search-execution-corruption-failure/48498/5 "2017-07-05T22:56:10Z")

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