# How to solve the problem primary shard is not yet active

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-solve-the-problem-primary-shard-is-not-yet-active/34516>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 13, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-solve-the-problem-primary-shard-is-not-yet-active/34516 "2015-11-13T13:42:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Diaz_Gonzalez)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-solve-the-problem-primary-shard-is-not-yet-active/34516/1 "2015-11-13T13:42:41Z")

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How could I resolve this problem?

```
index shard prirep state docs store ip node  
new_gompute_history_2015-10-23_10:10:26 2 p INITIALIZING 10.8.5.15 Alyosha Kravinoff 
new_gompute_history_2015-10-23_10:10:26 2 r UNASSIGNED

```

Because I have enough space in the disk to save data in ES (more than 85% of capacity) but when I want to reallocathe this shard I cannot do it and the message that I obtain is by:

```
[NO(primary shard is not yet active)]

```

Could some body tell me something about this?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Diaz_Gonzalez)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-solve-the-problem-primary-shard-is-not-yet-active/34516/2 "2015-11-13T16:03:05Z")

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I have this configuration in elasticsearch.yml

```
index.routing.allocation.disable_allocation: false

```

But I continue with the same problem.

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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, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-solve-the-problem-primary-shard-is-not-yet-active/34516/3 "2017-07-05T23:38:36Z")

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