# Timed out while retrying \[indices:admin/exists\] after failure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timed-out-while-retrying-indices-admin-exists-after-failure/286870>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timed-out-while-retrying-indices-admin-exists-after-failure/286870 "2021-10-15T19:22:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![akshay\_dindure1994](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akshay_dindure1994/32/95967_2.png) [@akshay\_dindure1994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akshay_dindure1994)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timed-out-while-retrying-indices-admin-exists-after-failure/286870/1 "2021-10-15T19:22:45Z")

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Hello Team,

I have single node setup in my environment.  
I am facing issue after an server reboot. Elastic is take 8 time more time then usual to start. And soon getting abnormal.  
Please find the the Error which I am getting while starting the Elastic

```auto
[2021-10-14T18:11:05,648][DEBUG][o.e.a.a.i.e.i.TransportIndicesExistsAction] [es_node_1] timed out while retrying [indices:admin/exists] after failure (timeout [1m])
org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlockException: blocked by: [SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlocks.indicesBlockedException(ClusterBlocks.java:204) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.TransportIndicesExistsAction.checkBlock(TransportIndicesExistsAction.java:63) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.TransportIndicesExistsAction.checkBlock(TransportIndicesExistsAction.java:40) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.TransportMasterNodeAction$AsyncSingleAction.doStart(TransportMasterNodeAction.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.TransportMasterNodeAction$AsyncSingleAction$4.onNewClusterState(TransportMasterNodeAction.java:212) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ContextPreservingListener.onNewClusterState(ClusterStateObserver.java:303) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ObserverClusterStateListener.clusterChanged(ClusterStateObserver.java:191) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.lambda$callClusterStateListeners$7(ClusterApplierService.java:507) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$KeySpliterator.forEachRemaining(ConcurrentHashMap.java:3527) ~[?:1.8.0_292]
at java.util.stream.Streams$ConcatSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Streams.java:743) ~[?:1.8.0_292]
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$Head.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:647) ~[?:1.8.0_292]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.callClusterStateListeners(ClusterApplierService.java:504) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.applyChanges(ClusterApplierService.java:487) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.runTask(ClusterApplierService.java:431) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService$UpdateTask.run(ClusterApplierService.java:161) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:625) [elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:244) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:207) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0_292]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_292]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_292]
[2021-10-14T18:11:05,657][ERROR][c.f.s.c.IndexBaseConfigurationRepository] Failure while checking MasterNotDiscoveredException[ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];]]; nested: ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];]; index searchguard
org.elasticsearch.discovery.MasterNotDiscoveredException: ClusterBlockException[blocked by: [SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.TransportMasterNodeAction$AsyncSingleAction$4.onTimeout(TransportMasterNodeAction.java:223) [elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ContextPreservingListener.onTimeout(ClusterStateObserver.java:317) [elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ObserverClusterStateListener.onTimeout(ClusterStateObserver.java:244) [elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService$NotifyTimeout.run(ClusterApplierService.java:576) [elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:625) [elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0_292]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_292]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_292]
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlockException: blocked by: [SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE/1/state not recovered / initialized];
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlocks.indicesBlockedException(ClusterBlocks.java:204) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.TransportIndicesExistsAction.checkBlock(TransportIndicesExistsAction.java:63) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.exists.indices.TransportIndicesExistsAction.checkBlock(TransportIndicesExistsAction.java:40) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.TransportMasterNodeAction$AsyncSingleAction.doStart(TransportMasterNodeAction.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.TransportMasterNodeAction$AsyncSingleAction$4.onNewClusterState(TransportMasterNodeAction.java:212) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ContextPreservingListener.onNewClusterState(ClusterStateObserver.java:303) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ObserverClusterStateListener.clusterChanged(ClusterStateObserver.java:191) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.lambda$callClusterStateListeners$7(ClusterApplierService.java:507) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$KeySpliterator.forEachRemaining(ConcurrentHashMap.java:3527) ~[?:1.8.0_292]
at java.util.stream.Streams$ConcatSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Streams.java:743) ~[?:1.8.0_292]
at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$Head.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:647) ~[?:1.8.0_292]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.callClusterStateListeners(ClusterApplierService.java:504) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.applyChanges(ClusterApplierService.java:487) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.runTask(ClusterApplierService.java:431) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService$UpdateTask.run(ClusterApplierService.java:161) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:625) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:244) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:207) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.0.jar:6.3.0]
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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:** [November 12, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timed-out-while-retrying-indices-admin-exists-after-failure/286870/2 "2021-11-12T19:23:41Z")

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