# Exception when creating Index
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657 "2017-03-15T08:51:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Abid\_Hussain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abid_Hussain)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657/1 "2017-03-15T08:51:25Z")
Hi,
we're using Elasticsearch 1.4.
we have a nightly job running which deletes several indices and creates them again from scratch via Java API. Deletion of indices fails. The log is not very informative (see below). Do you have any advice how to find out the reason for this issue?
Log output:
[2017-03-15 02:40:31,663][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.delete] [Magdalene] [index\_avme] failed to delete index
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException: failed to process cluster event (delete-inde
x [index\_avme]) within 30s
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$2$1.run(InternalClusterService.java:263)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[2017-03-15 02:55:31,464][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.delete] [Magdalene] [index\_fr] failed to delete index
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException: failed to process cluster event (delete-inde
x [index\_fr]) within 30s
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$2$1.run(InternalClusterService.java:263)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[2017-03-15 03:00:30,119][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.delete] [Magdalene] [index\_de] failed to delete index
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException: failed to process cluster event (delete-inde
x [index\_de]) within 30s
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$2$1.run(InternalClusterService.java:263)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Regards,
Abid
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### Author:  [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657/2 "2017-03-15T11:07:40Z")
Hi,
Does your nightly job trace some errors (in responses) when deleting indices ?
Does you client (nightly job) and your cluster use the same Jar version ?
bye
Xavier
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657/3 "2017-03-15T11:12:58Z")
Definitely upgrade !
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### Author:  [@Abid\_Hussain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abid_Hussain)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657/4 "2017-03-15T14:40:21Z")
Yes, they use the same jar version (1.4.2).
Our application log shows the following:
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException: failed to process cluster event (
delete-index [index\_de]) within 30s
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$2$1.run(InternalClusterService.java:263)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
... 1 more
Any ideas how to investigate further?
Regards,
Abid
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657/5 "2017-03-15T15:31:28Z")
> [@Abid\_Hussain](#):
>
> Any ideas how to investigate further?
This version is so old. At the very least you should upgrade to 1.7 which is not supported anymore though.
So many things have been fixed between 1.4, 1.7, 2.4 and 5.2!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-when-creating-index/78657/6 "2017-04-12T15:31:29Z")
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