# Node not coming back after offline

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-coming-back-after-offline/93155>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 14, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-coming-back-after-offline/93155 "2017-07-14T09:48:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![a99lex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@a99lex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a99lex)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-coming-back-after-offline/93155/1 "2017-07-14T09:48:59Z")

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We are seeing this in the log, it seems the node is not doing anything, but is causing the cluster to stay in red state.

How do we reslove this?

[2017-07-14 01:27:26,575][DEBUG][action.bulk] [[phcxesdect006.idxcorp.expedmz.com](http://phcxesdect006.idxcorp.expedmz.com)] failed to execute [BulkShardRequest to [batch-events-2017.07] containing [3] requests] on [[batch-events-2017.07][4]]  
[batch-events-2017.07][[batch-events-2017.07][4]] IllegalIndexShardStateException[CurrentState[POST\_RECOVERY] operation only allowed when started/recovering, origin [PRIMARY]]  
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.ensureWriteAllowed(IndexShard.java:1062)  
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.create(IndexShard.java:538)  
at org.elasticsearch.index.engine.Engine$Create.execute(Engine.java:810)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.executeIndexRequestOnPrimary(TransportIndexAction.java:237)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.shardIndexOperation(TransportShardBulkAction.java:327)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportShardBulkAction.java:120)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportShardBulkAction.shardOperationOnPrimary(TransportShardBulkAction.java:68)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryPhase.doRun(TransportReplicationAction.java:639)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportReplicationAction.java:279)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportReplicationAction.java:271)  
at org.elasticsearch.shield.transport.ShieldServerTransportService$ProfileSecuredRequestHandler.messageReceived(ShieldServerTransportService.java:180)  
at org.elasticsearch.transport.RequestHandlerRegistry.processMessageReceived(RequestHandlerRegistry.java:75)  
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$4.doRun(TransportService.java:376)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Thanks  
Alexander Schou

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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:** [August 11, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-coming-back-after-offline/93155/2 "2017-08-11T09:49:29Z")

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Closed on August 11, 2017, 9:49am UTC

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