# Can not elect master when restarting cluster from 7.3 upgrade

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-elect-master-when-restarting-cluster-from-7-3-upgrade/197846>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-elect-master-when-restarting-cluster-from-7-3-upgrade/197846 "2019-09-03T12:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![elastic\_paul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@elastic\_paul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastic_paul)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-elect-master-when-restarting-cluster-from-7-3-upgrade/197846/19 "2019-09-04T12:17:43Z")

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Finally got it all working! Thanks for your help @DavidTurner  
Then we had a power outage last night so I had to wait and see if it recovered!! It did.

The major change was to increase two timeouts to account for my poor disk performance:

> cluster.join.timeout: 180s  
> cluster.publish.timeout: 180s

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