# Unsigned sharding **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 29, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unsigned-sharding/126054 "2018-03-29T08:48:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WanliTian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@WanliTian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WanliTian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unsigned-sharding/126054/1 "2018-03-29T08:48:54Z")
[2018-03-29T08:15:08,500][WARN][o.e.c.a.s.ShardStateAction] [master-node-3] [100002555313-1510542891][14] received shard failed for shard id [[100002555313-1510542891][14]], allocation id [h1ICRYzCT5qmAmZYHPkhbg], primary term [1], message [failed to perform indices:data/write/bulk[s] on replica [100002555313-1510542891][14], node[rpMejoD5SeyNEbBgi7W8Fg], [R], s[STARTED], a[id=h1ICRYzCT5qmAmZYHPkhbg]], failure [RemoteTransportException[[data-node-9.3.172.202][9.3.172.202:9300][indices:data/write/bulk[s][r]]]; nested: IllegalStateException[active primary shard cannot be a replication target before relocation hand off [100002555313-1510542891][14], node[rpMejoD5SeyNEbBgi7W8Fg], [P], s[STARTED], a[id=h1ICRYzCT5qmAmZYHPkhbg], state is [STARTED]]; ] org.elasticsearch.transport.RemoteTransportException: [data-node-9.3.172.202][9.3.172.202:9300][indices:data/write/bulk[s][r]] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: active primary shard cannot be a replication target before relocation hand off [100002555313-1510542891][14], node[rpMejoD5SeyNEbBgi7W8Fg], [P], s[STARTED], a[id=h1ICRYzCT5qmAmZYHPkhbg], state is [STARTED] at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.verifyReplicationTarget(IndexShard.java:1141) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.acquireReplicaOperationLock(IndexShard.java:1666) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncReplicaAction.doRun(TransportReplicationAction.java:566) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$ReplicaOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportReplicationAction.java:451) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$ReplicaOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportReplicationAction.java:441) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.transport.RequestHandlerRegistry.processMessageReceived(RequestHandlerRegistry.java:69) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport$RequestHandler.doRun(TcpTransport.java:1544) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:638) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) ~[elasticsearch-5.5.2.jar:5.5.2] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) ~[?:1.8.0\_71] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) ~[?:1.8.0\_71] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0\_71] ---
**Author:** ![WanliTian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@WanliTian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WanliTian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unsigned-sharding/126054/2 "2018-03-29T08:50:06Z")
at one time point, too many unassigned sharding appeared like above ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unsigned-sharding/126054/3 "2018-04-26T08:50:42Z")
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