# Initializing shards always show 1

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/initializing-shards-always-show-1/14702>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/initializing-shards-always-show-1/14702 "2013-12-04T11:19:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Wee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@Jason\_Wee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jason_Wee)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/initializing-shards-always-show-1/14702/1 "2013-12-04T11:19:55Z")

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Hi,

Running es 0.907 and check cluster health show, "initializing\_shards" : 1,  
and check the log as shown below. Is there a way to make the shard  
initialized and assigned without restart node3?

[2013-12-04 09:43:24,915][WARN][cluster.action.shard] [node1]  
[index\_test][2798] received shard failed for [index\_test][2798],  
node[mcFuzNWuSWOcmEHyqlvBxw], [R], s[INITIALIZING], indexUUID  
[AmHTDWThTJu1P24iZufg8w], reason [Failed to start shard, message  
[RecoveryFailedException[[index\_test][2798]: Recovery failed from  
[node1][sXPkYLReS\_u6bh4JcidPFA][inet[/192.168.3.5:9300]] into  
[node3][mcFuzNWuSWOcmEHyqlvBxw][inet[/192.168.3.6:9300]]]; nested:  
RemoteTransportException[[node1][inet[/192.168.3.5:9300]][index/shard/recovery/startRecovery]];  
nested: RecoveryEngineException[[index\_test][2798] Phase[2] Execution  
failed]; nested:  
RemoteTransportException[[node3][inet[/192.168.3.6:9300]][index/shard/recovery/prepareTranslog]];  
nested: EngineCreationFailureException[[index\_test][2798] failed to create  
engine]; nested: LockObtainFailedException[Lock obtain timed out:  
NativeFSLock@/vol/elasticsearch/Cluster\_Test/nodes/0/indices/index\_test/2798/index/write.lock];  
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/Jason

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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 6, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/initializing-shards-always-show-1/14702/2 "2017-07-06T02:03:24Z")

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