# Restart leave unassigned shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 7, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restart-leave-unassigned-shards/16860 "2014-04-07T23:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sulemanmubarik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sulemanmubarik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sulemanmubarik)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restart-leave-unassigned-shards/16860/1 "2014-04-07T23:47:51Z")
Hi I have to restart elasticsearch cluster nodes because of some timeout exceptions I did restart the nodes one by one there are 5 data nodes in cluster But when I did that it leave some shards unassigned and I have no replicas There is nothing help full in logs. Can I get some help to know why these shards remain unassigned and any solution Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/9b9fcede-16a6-4ca0-84d0-2d7cb58e523e%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/9b9fcede-16a6-4ca0-84d0-2d7cb58e523e%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restart-leave-unassigned-shards/16860/2 "2017-07-06T01:37:43Z")