# Indexing is not working (super noob question)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-is-not-working-super-noob-question/3911
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 11, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-is-not-working-super-noob-question/3911 "2011-02-11T00:55:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@invaderZYM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/invaderZYM)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-is-not-working-super-noob-question/3911/1 "2011-02-11T00:55:07Z")
I recently inherited a search system that runs on ES. I'm able to spin
off nodes on EC2 with an S3 storage. I simply then attempt to index
some data in there, the world famous twitter example amongst other
things. As soon as I do this I have been getting the following error
{"error":"ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [1/not recovered from
gateway];]"}
I been checking cluster health and it seems to be stuck on red which
makes no sense to me since there is no data in there. This has been
the case for .14.3 and 14.4. The info I found about this error is
pretty scarce and I'm not sure which direction to take to begin to try
and solve it.
Any help is much appreciated
Thanks
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-is-not-working-super-noob-question/3911/2 "2011-02-11T00:57:24Z")
Are you using the s3 gateway? If so, there is a bug where if you did not create any index, shutdown the cluster, and start it back up, it will not exit the "not recovered from gateway" cluster block. Once you create even a single index (on a clean data, clear it form s3 as well), then it will be able to recover.
On Friday, February 11, 2011 at 2:55 AM, invaderZYM wrote:
> I recently inherited a search system that runs on ES. I'm able to spin
> off nodes on EC2 with an S3 storage. I simply then attempt to index
> some data in there, the world famous twitter example amongst other
> things. As soon as I do this I have been getting the following error
>
> {"error":"ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [1/not recovered from
> gateway];]"}
>
> I been checking cluster health and it seems to be stuck on red which
> makes no sense to me since there is no data in there. This has been
> the case for .14.3 and 14.4. The info I found about this error is
> pretty scarce and I'm not sure which direction to take to begin to try
> and solve it.
>
> Any help is much appreciated
>
> Thanks
---
### Author:  [@invaderZYM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/invaderZYM)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-is-not-working-super-noob-question/3911/3 "2011-02-11T03:09:37Z")
That was the ticket 🙂
Thanks Shay
On Feb 10, 4:57 pm, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote:
> Are you using the s3 gateway? If so, there is a bug where if you did not create any index, shutdown the cluster, and start it back up, it will not exit the "not recovered from gateway" cluster block. Once you create even a single index (on a clean data, clear it form s3 as well), then it will be able to recover.
>
> On Friday, February 11, 2011 at 2:55 AM, invaderZYM wrote:
>
> > I recently inherited a search system that runs on ES. I'm able to spin
> > off nodes on EC2 with an S3 storage. I simply then attempt to index
> > some data in there, the world famous twitter example amongst other
> > things. As soon as I do this I have been getting the following error
>
> > {"error":"ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [1/not recovered from
> > gateway];]"}
>
> > I been checking cluster health and it seems to be stuck on red which
> > makes no sense to me since there is no data in there. This has been
> > the case for .14.3 and 14.4. The info I found about this error is
> > pretty scarce and I'm not sure which direction to take to begin to try
> > and solve it.
>
> > Any help is much appreciated
>
> > Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-is-not-working-super-noob-question/3911/4 "2017-07-06T04:12:13Z")