# Shard failed recovery **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 30, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-recovery/5487 "2011-09-30T10:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charles\_Hooker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@Charles\_Hooker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Charles_Hooker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-recovery/5487/1 "2011-09-30T10:15:15Z")
Hi, I'm currently trying to get the Percolator working. At first, I register about 6000 queries to the percolator - that works. After that, I create the corresponding index (with custom analyzers and schema) in order to be able to query the percolator. This doesn't work because immediately after I create the index (the corresponding scripts works when not using the percolator) the cluster state turns red because of this exception: org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException: [sentences][0] failed recovery at org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayService $1.run(IndexShardGatewayService.java:229) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor $Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor $Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null value at org.elasticsearch.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java: 204) at org.elasticsearch.common.collect.ImmutableMap.entryOf(ImmutableMap.java: 139) at org.elasticsearch.common.collect.ImmutableMap.copyOf(ImmutableMap.java: 263) at org.elasticsearch.common.collect.MapBuilder.immutableMap(MapBuilder.java: 73) at org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorExecutor.addQueries(PercolatorExecutor.java: 252) at org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorService.loadQueries(PercolatorService.java: 131) at org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorService.access $700(PercolatorService.java:56) at org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorService $ShardLifecycleListener.afterIndexShardStarted(PercolatorService.java: 246) at org.elasticsearch.indices.InternalIndicesLifecycle.afterIndexShardStarted(InternalIndicesLifecycle.java: 78) at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.service.InternalIndexShard.start(InternalIndexShard.java: 259) at org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.local.LocalIndexShardGateway.recover(LocalIndexShardGateway.java: 123) at org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayService $1.run(IndexShardGatewayService.java:179) ... 3 more I'm using ElasticSearch 0.17.7 on Ubuntu 11.04 x86\_64. Do you have any idea of how to resolve this? Thanks in Advance! Best regards Charles ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-recovery/5487/2 "2011-10-02T08:57:31Z")
Can you post a way for us to recreate it? On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Charles Hooker [c.hooker@aol.com](mailto:c.hooker@aol.com) wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently trying to get the Percolator working. At first, I > register about 6000 queries to the percolator - that works. After > that, I create the corresponding index (with custom analyzers and > schema) in order to be able to query the percolator. > This doesn't work because immediately after I create the index (the > corresponding scripts works when not using the percolator) the cluster > state turns red because of this exception: > > org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException: > [sentences][0] failed recovery > at org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayService > $1.run(IndexShardGatewayService.java:229) > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor > $Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor > $Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null value > at > > org.elasticsearch.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java: > 204) > at > org.elasticsearch.common.collect.ImmutableMap.entryOf(ImmutableMap.java: > 139) > at > org.elasticsearch.common.collect.ImmutableMap.copyOf(ImmutableMap.java: > 263) > at > org.elasticsearch.common.collect.MapBuilder.immutableMap(MapBuilder.java: > 73) > at > > org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorExecutor.addQueries(PercolatorExecutor.java: > 252) > at > > org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorService.loadQueries(PercolatorService.java: > 131) > at org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorService.access > $700(PercolatorService.java:56) > at org.elasticsearch.index.percolator.PercolatorService > $ShardLifecycleListener.afterIndexShardStarted(PercolatorService.java: > 246) > at > > org.elasticsearch.indices.InternalIndicesLifecycle.afterIndexShardStarted(InternalIndicesLifecycle.java: > 78) > at > > org.elasticsearch.index.shard.service.InternalIndexShard.start(InternalIndexShard.java: > 259) > at > > org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.local.LocalIndexShardGateway.recover(LocalIndexShardGateway.java: > 123) > at org.elasticsearch.index.gateway.IndexShardGatewayService > $1.run(IndexShardGatewayService.java:179) > ... 3 more > > I'm using Elasticsearch 0.17.7 on Ubuntu 11.04 x86\_64. > Do you have any idea of how to resolve this? > > Thanks in Advance! > > Best regards > Charles ---
**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, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-recovery/5487/3 "2017-07-06T03:53:08Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:53am UTC