# elasticsearch NoShardAvailableActionException

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-noshardavailableactionexception/8335>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 6, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-noshardavailableactionexception/8335 "2012-07-06T00:53:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@Yuhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yuhan)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-noshardavailableactionexception/8335/1 "2012-07-06T00:53:42Z")

</div>

Hi all,

I received a error from elasticsearch all of a sudden:

{"error":"NoShardAvailableActionException[[video\_category][4] No shard  
available for [[video\_category][type][4925390]: routing  
[null]]]","status":500}

The error persists after a restart of the service.. So, what's the possible  
cause of the problem?

Thank you.

Yuhan

The error log from elasticsearch:  
[2012-07-06 00:23:22,867][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
[widgets][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]: Failed to  
execute  
[org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
]  
org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [widgets][4] missing  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
[2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
[destinations][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
Failed to execute  
[org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
]  
org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [destinations][4]  
missing  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
[2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
[video\_category][0], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
Failed to execute  
[org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
]  
org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][0]  
missing  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
[2012-07-06 00:23:22,869][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
[video\_category][1], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
Failed to execute  
[org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
]  
org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][1]  
missing  
at  
org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

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**Author:** ![Yuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@Yuhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yuhan)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-noshardavailableactionexception/8335/2 "2012-07-06T23:09:58Z")

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Hi all,

looks like I am still able to retrieve data from localhost:9200 through  
curl, but when I attempted to query from localhost:9300 with the java  
TransportClient, it reaches NoShardAvailableActionException..

could someone help with on this?

Thank you.

Yuhan

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Yuhan Zhang [yzhang@onescreen.com](mailto:yzhang@onescreen.com) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I received a error from elasticsearch all of a sudden:
> 
> {"error":"NoShardAvailableActionException[[video\_category][4] No shard  
> available for [[video\_category][type][4925390]: routing  
> [null]]]","status":500}
> 
> The error persists after a restart of the service.. So, what's the  
> possible cause of the problem?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Yuhan
> 
> The error log from elasticsearch:  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,867][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [widgets][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]: Failed to  
> execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [widgets][4] missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [destinations][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> Failed to execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [destinations][4]  
> missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [video\_category][0], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> Failed to execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][0]  
> missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,869][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [video\_category][1], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> Failed to execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][1]  
> missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

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Senior Software Engineer  
OneScreen Inc.  
[yzhang@onescreen.com](mailto:yzhang@onescreen.com) [ehorne@onescreen.com](mailto:ehorne@onescreen.com)  
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-noshardavailableactionexception/8335/3 "2013-09-04T20:41:45Z")

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Hi Yuhan,

I'm having the exact same issue. Were you able to overcome this?

I'm also having difficulty getting the river.couchb plugin to "listen" to my couchdb "\_changes" stream... could the above issue be related to this?

Thank you,  
Pedro

Hi all,

looks like I am still able to retrieve data from localhost:9200 through  
curl, but when I attempted to query from localhost:9300 with the java  
TransportClient, it reaches NoShardAvailableActionException..

could someone help with on this?

Thank you.

Yuhan

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Yuhan Zhang \<yzhang@\> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I received a error from elasticsearch all of a sudden:
> 
> {"error":"NoShardAvailableActionException[[video\_category][4] No shard  
> available for [[video\_category][type][4925390]: routing  
> [null]]]","status":500}
> 
> The error persists after a restart of the service.. So, what's the  
> possible cause of the problem?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Yuhan
> 
> The error log from elasticsearch:  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,867][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [widgets][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]: Failed to  
> execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [widgets][4] missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [destinations][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> Failed to execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [destinations][4]  
> missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [video\_category][0], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> Failed to execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][0]  
> missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> [2012-07-06 00:23:22,869][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> [video\_category][1], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> Failed to execute  
> [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282  
> ]  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][1]  
> missing  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> at  
> org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> at  
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

--  
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Senior Software Engineer  
OneScreen Inc.  
yzhang@ \<ehorne@\>  
[www.onescreen.com](http://www.onescreen.com)

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I'm getting the same issue using Node.js. Looking for any solutions at this  
point as a restart of the server never seems to work.

On Friday, July 6, 2012 4:09:58 PM UTC-7, Yuhan Zhang wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> looks like I am still able to retrieve data from localhost:9200 through  
> curl, but when I attempted to query from localhost:9300 with the java  
> TransportClient, it reaches NoShardAvailableActionException..
> 
> could someone help with on this?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Yuhan
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Yuhan Zhang \<[yzh...@onescreen.com](mailto:yzh...@onescreen.com)  
> \<javascript:\>\> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I received a error from elasticsearch all of a sudden:
> > 
> > {"error":"NoShardAvailableActionException[[video\_category][4] No shard  
> > available for [[video\_category][type][4925390]: routing  
> > [null]]]","status":500}
> > 
> > The error persists after a restart of the service.. So, what's the  
> > possible cause of the problem?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Yuhan
> > 
> > The error log from elasticsearch:  
> > [2012-07-06 00:23:22,867][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> > [widgets][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]: Failed to  
> > execute  
> > [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282]  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [widgets][4] missing  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> > [2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> > [destinations][4], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> > Failed to execute  
> > [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282]  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [destinations][4]  
> > missing  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> > [2012-07-06 00:23:22,868][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> > [video\_category][0], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> > Failed to execute  
> > [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282]  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][0]  
> > missing  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)  
> > [2012-07-06 00:23:22,869][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.status] [Pipeline]  
> > [video\_category][1], node[Phu7ZmmUTEOpBPzl2IjN2w], [P], s[INITIALIZING]:  
> > Failed to execute  
> > [org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndicesStatusRequest@36ae2282]  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.IndexShardMissingException: [video\_category][1]  
> > missing  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.index.service.InternalIndexService.shardSafe(InternalIndexService.java:177)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:135)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.TransportIndicesStatusAction.shardOperation(TransportIndicesStatusAction.java:58)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:232)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction.performOperation(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:210)  
> > at  
> > org.elasticsearch.action.support.broadcast.TransportBroadcastOperationAction$AsyncBroadcastAction$1.run(TransportBroadcastOperationAction.java:186)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)  
> > at  
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)  
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
> 
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