# I deleted the indices and tried to restart kibana but it failed with this error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-the-indices-and-tried-to-restart-kibana-but-it-failed-with-this-error/265807>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-the-indices-and-tried-to-restart-kibana-but-it-failed-with-this-error/265807 "2021-03-01T13:52:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajeetsingh193](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@ajeetsingh193](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajeetsingh193)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-the-indices-and-tried-to-restart-kibana-but-it-failed-with-this-error/265807/1 "2021-03-01T13:52:41Z")

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{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-03-01T13:34:37Z","tags":["fatal","root"],"pid":56422,"message":"Error: Unable to write Kibana UUID file, please check the uuid.server configuration value in kibana.yml and ensure Kibana has sufficient permissions to read / write to this file. Error was: ENOENT\n at writeUuidToFile (/opt/epfttsu/app/kibana-7.9.3-linux-x86\_64/src/core/server/uuid/resolve\_uuid.js:123:11)"}

FATAL Error: Unable to write Kibana UUID file, please check the uuid.server configuration value in kibana.yml and ensure Kibana has sufficient permissions to read / write to this file. Error was: ENOENT

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**Author:** ![Dzmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dzmitry/32/65026_2.png) [@Dzmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dzmitry)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-the-indices-and-tried-to-restart-kibana-but-it-failed-with-this-error/265807/2 "2021-03-01T16:13:09Z")

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Hi @ajeetsingh193

Welcome to Elastic community!

Did you check your kibana.yml file to have the following values set:

server.uuid:   
server.name:

If it is set, but you still have an issue, can you provide stack version, installation type and post kibana.yml file so we get more context. What kind of indexes did you remove?

Regards, Dzmitry

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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:** [March 29, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-the-indices-and-tried-to-restart-kibana-but-it-failed-with-this-error/265807/3 "2021-03-29T16:13:37Z")

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