Linux Service Fails to Start

Elastic Search
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Hi,

Having all kinds of issues getting Elasticsearch (for Graylog) to start. It seems I (again) have messed up shards ... OK, I'd like to delete them, but all the curl commands won't work, as the service isn't running. Is there a way to do this, without starting the service (as it won't)? FYI, my log for the service failing is below. Thanks!!

Caused by: org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: Search rejected due to missing shards [[.kibana_task_manager_7.17.25_001][0]]. Consider using `allow_partial_search_results` setting to bypass this error.
        at org.elasticsearch.action.search.AbstractSearchAsyncAction.run(AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.17.25.jar:7.17.25]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.search.AbstractSearchAsyncAction.executePhase(AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java:454) [elasticsearch-7.17.25.jar:7.17.25]
        ... 79 more
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Helo and welcome,

The log you shared seems related to search issues, not starting issues.

Please share the errors you get when trying to start Elastisearch.

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First off, thanks for the quick reply! I tried (again) to restart ... and nothing at all in the log (I did a tail -f ... not a thing). So I fully removed Elasticsearch, rebooted and reinstalled. Now it starts. Just need to figure out how to remove all the UNASSIGNED shards. I seem to have to keep setting the number_of_replicas to 0 for some reason. But even then, I have 3 left that I can't do that for. Hmm.

Any pointers are appreciated of course. Thanks!