# Failed to start shard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-shard/22577
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 9, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-shard/22577 "2015-03-09T06:15:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Sephen\_Xu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sephen_Xu)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-shard/22577/1 "2015-03-09T06:15:44Z")
[2015-03-09 13:46:33,720][WARN][indices.cluster] [es\_node\_4\_2]
[ossdatabse-2015-02-10][6] failed to start shard
org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException:
[ossdatabse-2015-02-10][6] failed to fetch index version after copying it
over
at
org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.local.LocalIndexShardGateway.recover(LocalIndexShardGateway.java:136)
at
org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayService$1.run(IndexShardGatewayService.java:197)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by:
org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException:
[ossdatabse-2015-02-10][6] shard allocated for local recovery (post api),
should exist, but doesn't, current files: [\_checksums-1424994155456,
segments.gen]
at
org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.local.LocalIndexShardGateway.recover(LocalIndexShardGateway.java:115)
... 4 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: segments\_r8
at
org.elasticsearch.index.store.Store$StoreDirectory.openInput(Store.java:471)
at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos.read(SegmentInfos.java:324)
at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos$1.doBody(SegmentInfos.java:404)
at
org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos$FindSegmentsFile.run(SegmentInfos.java:843)
at
org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos$FindSegmentsFile.run(SegmentInfos.java:694)
at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos.read(SegmentInfos.java:400)
at org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.Lucene.readSegmentInfos(Lucene.java:117)
at
org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.local.LocalIndexShardGateway.recover(LocalIndexShardGateway.java:106)
... 4 more
[2015-03-09 13:46:33,720][WARN][cluster.action.shard] [es\_node\_4\_2]
[ossdatabse-2015-02-11][6] sending failed shard for
[ossdatabse-2015-02-11][6], node[cq\_HPV1ZSlKArq6HgciNSg], [P],
s[INITIALIZING], indexUUID [7yEPLOpYQciVdw\_W1IF5Hg], reason [Failed to
start shard, message
[IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException[[ossdatabse-2015-02-11][6] failed to
fetch index version after copying it over]; nested:
IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException[[ossdatabse-2015-02-11][6] shard
allocated for local recovery (post api), should exist, but doesn't, current
files: [segments.gen, \_checksums-1425594266760]]; nested:
FileNotFoundException[segments\_r7]; ]]
How to solve this problem?
thx
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-shard/22577/2 "2017-07-06T00:27:49Z")