# Delete returns IndexMissingException but Index creation hangs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 23, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076 "2013-10-23T15:19:52Z")
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Nigam\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashish_Nigam_3)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076/1 "2013-10-23T15:19:52Z")
Hi,
Lately, I am noticing following use case for few of the indexes in the
cluster -
When I issue curl DELETE command, cluster comes up with the response that
index does not exist.
curl -XDELETE '[http://10.0.1.1:9200/du\_shnindex\_14141\_2013\_9/](http://10.0.1.1:9200/du_shnindex_14141_2013_9/)'
{"error":"IndexMissingException[[du\_shnindex\_14141\_2013\_9]
missing]","status":404}
But when I issue index creation command, it just hangs.
This command just hangs and would eventually timeout.
curl -XPUT '[http://10.0.1.1:9200/du\_shnindex\_14141\_2013\_9/](http://10.0.1.1:9200/du_shnindex_14141_2013_9/)'
Why would this happen? I also looked at index folders to check if there are
any index files but I do not see this index in any node.
Please let me know how can I fix it. I am using 0.19.8 version.
Thanks
Ashish
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076/2 "2013-10-23T15:27:25Z")
There is something blocking the cluster, you have to locate the node having
a problem, and find out the cause by examining the logs. Easiest way to
cope with this is restarting the locked node. There are also many
monitoring tools you can use to watch for the cluster nodes working ok.
Jörg
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Nigam\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashish_Nigam_3)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076/3 "2013-10-23T15:37:28Z")
Thanks.
I actually restarted the whole cluster and still I am facing same problem
with that particular index.
Please help me understand what can I look for in the logs to know if it is
blocking the cluster.
Another data point is I have 200+ unassigned shards in the cluster at
present and status is Red.
And I see that master node logs are churning out these lines for all those
shards
][WARN][cluster.action.shard] [shn-sjc-prod-v-enod4] received shard
failed for [shnindex\_11284\_2013\_9][2], node[1vdpicj6TOubMHOgHjy4PQ], [P],
s[INITIALIZING], reas
on [Failed to start shard, message
[IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException[[shnindex\_11284\_2013\_9][2] shard
allocated for local recovery (post api), should exists, but doesn't]]]
This has been happening since last two weeks now. This is yet another
problem I am facing with the cluster. But the fact that I am not able to
re-create some of those indexes, is blocking me to reindex data from DB.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:27 AM, [joergprante@gmail.com](mailto:joergprante@gmail.com) \<
[joergprante@gmail.com](mailto:joergprante@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> There is something blocking the cluster, you have to locate the node
> having a problem, and find out the cause by examining the logs. Easiest way
> to cope with this is restarting the locked node. There are also many
> monitoring tools you can use to watch for the cluster nodes working ok.
>
> Jörg
>
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076/4 "2013-10-23T16:21:39Z")
I thought so the cluster is red.
You should dig in the logs to make sure what happened. Maybe OOM, maybe no
file descriptors, maybe out of disk space, maybe external issues of the OS.
Maybe you find no message at all.
From the recovery message, ES can't find a shard at it's supposed location,
which is fatal, and bails out. It is shnindex\_11284\_2013\_9 shard Id 2 on
node 1vdpicj6TOubMHOgHjy4PQ. If you have replica for this shard, you can
try to remove the broken shard or broken index and hope ES can pick up the
replicated index.
A red cluster can not process index deletions of course.
Jörg
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Nigam\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashish_Nigam_3)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076/5 "2013-10-23T18:46:31Z")
If I can't delete an index, then is there any other way to fix the index?
I need to re-populate the data from DB.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, [joergprante@gmail.com](mailto:joergprante@gmail.com) \<
[joergprante@gmail.com](mailto:joergprante@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> I thought so the cluster is red.
>
> You should dig in the logs to make sure what happened. Maybe OOM, maybe no
> file descriptors, maybe out of disk space, maybe external issues of the OS.
> Maybe you find no message at all.
>
> From the recovery message, ES can't find a shard at it's supposed
> location, which is fatal, and bails out. It is shnindex\_11284\_2013\_9
> shard Id 2 on node 1vdpicj6TOubMHOgHjy4PQ. If you have replica for this
> shard, you can try to remove the broken shard or broken index and hope ES
> can pick up the replicated index.
>
> A red cluster can not process index deletions of course.
>
> Jörg
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-returns-indexmissingexception-but-index-creation-hangs/14076/6 "2017-07-06T02:10:59Z")