# Strange inactive shard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-inactive-shard/14187>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 31, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-inactive-shard/14187 "2013-10-31T12:07:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![po\_taka](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/po_taka/32/2003_2.png) [@po\_taka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/po_taka)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-inactive-shard/14187/1 "2013-10-31T12:07:02Z")

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hello,

I have 5 shards and 1 replica (default configuration)  
2 nodes.

I delete the index, create the index and insert some data.  
The problem is that **sometimes** 1 of shards is inactive.  
Heppened 3 times.  
If i restart one of the nodes (doesn't matter witch!), everything get synced and 5 shards are working.

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Exception trace:  
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1st node java version 1.6.0\_30  
2nd node jave version 1.7.0\_25  
maybe different versions couse the problem ? Will try to reproduce it with version 7 on both nodes.

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**Author:** ![po\_taka](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/po_taka/32/2003_2.png) [@po\_taka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/po_taka)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-inactive-shard/14187/2 "2013-11-01T07:23:30Z")

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can't reproduce it with java version 7 on both servers

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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, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-inactive-shard/14187/3 "2017-07-06T02:09:22Z")

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