# Elasticsearch wont start - ShardNotFoundException

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-wont-start-shardnotfoundexception/62174>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-wont-start-shardnotfoundexception/62174 "2016-10-04T14:42:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![r3v3r53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@r3v3r53](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/r3v3r53)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-wont-start-shardnotfoundexception/62174/1 "2016-10-04T14:42:58Z")

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my elasticsearch server was improperly shutdown.  
Upon restart elasticsearch service wont start.  
Apparently this is because of an shard problem.  
My question is how do i solve this?  
should i delete the indice "tor"?  
or is there a turn around?  
I tried to reassign the shard with no success.  
Here's the log entry where i think the problem resides.

```
RemoteTransportException[[Anais][xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9300]
[indices:data/read/search[phase/query]]]; 
nested: ShardNotFoundException[no such shard];
Caused by: [tor][[tor][4]] ShardNotFoundException[no such shard]
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**Author:** ![r3v3r53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@r3v3r53](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/r3v3r53)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-wont-start-shardnotfoundexception/62174/2 "2016-10-04T15:43:33Z")

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I can't figure it out how, but the problem is solved.  
maybe elastic search was executing some kind of slow operation making it unavailable...  
if this makes any sense a appretiate a comment.

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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 5, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-wont-start-shardnotfoundexception/62174/3 "2017-07-05T22:15:03Z")

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