# Can't start river created manualy

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-river-created-manualy/7802>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-river-created-manualy/7802 "2012-05-22T07:08:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nikolai\_Muhhin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nikolai_muhhin/32/2885_2.png) [@Nikolai\_Muhhin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikolai_Muhhin)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-river-created-manualy/7802/1 "2012-05-22T07:08:34Z")

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There is cluster which consists of two nodes on different machines. I  
create custom jdbc river with river's API and I suspect it will start  
fetching data from DB right after it's creation. But sometimes it doesn't  
start. In 'head' I see \_river index with only one document - meta, no  
status document created. Why could it happen time to time? What config  
parameters could affect this?

Thank you!

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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 6, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-river-created-manualy/7802/2 "2017-07-06T03:27:43Z")

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