# Cannot freeze or close indices with index.frozen:false property

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-freeze-or-close-indices-with-index-frozen-false-property/212334>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 18, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-freeze-or-close-indices-with-index-frozen-false-property/212334 "2019-12-18T13:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-freeze-or-close-indices-with-index-frozen-false-property/212334/1 "2019-12-18T13:32:22Z")

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Version: Elasticsearch 6.8

I have a few indices that cannot be frozen, the freeze operation returns with:

```auto
{
  "acknowledged" : false,
  "shards_acknowledged" : false
}

```

Inspecting the index yields the following interesting property:

```auto
GET myindex/_settings
...
{
  "myindex" : {
    "settings" : {
      "index" : {
...
        "frozen" : "false",
...
}}}

```

I have been using the freeze feature for a while now, but I'm pretty much out of clues how to proceed with this phenomenon.... Maybe my scheduled job borked these indices... a cluster event interrupted the freeze process?

Things that I checked/tried:

- checking the node vs routign allocation requirement -\> OK
- checking if the index is read-only -\> it's not RO
- querying the index as a live index -\> works
- closing the index -\> acknowledged: false (i.e. doesn't work)
- freezing the index -\> acknowledged: false (i.e. doesn't work)
- checking the deug level logs -\> no useful information
- opening the index -\> acknowledged:true, but makes no difference (and close/freeze won't start working after this)

Thanks for any help/idea you may offer.

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-freeze-or-close-indices-with-index-frozen-false-property/212334/2 "2019-12-18T13:56:27Z")

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Could you share the debug-level logs? I would expect there to be some messages indicating why this is failing, although it might not be obvious what they are...

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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:** [January 15, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-freeze-or-close-indices-with-index-frozen-false-property/212334/3 "2020-01-15T13:56:38Z")

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