# Unassigned primary shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-primary-shards/17545
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 16, 2014, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-primary-shards/17545 "2014-05-16T07:43:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@age](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/age)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2014, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-primary-shards/17545/1 "2014-05-16T07:43:09Z")
Good morning:
We had to restart our elasticsearch cluster v0.90.5 and 3 primary shards
have been 2 days trying unsuccessfully assigned.
Is there any solution to recover without having to refresh the index?
Regards
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-primary-shards/17545/2 "2017-07-06T01:29:03Z")