Here's sample error message that I see for unassigned shards -

[2014-06-23 04:59:08,087][WARN ][cluster.action.shard     ] [search02]
sending failed shard for [an_shnindex_9871_2014_1][3],
node[bc03gt7WRx-XYToz7nHVqg], [P], s[STARTED], reason [master
[search00][PDXvmuL_TpG7bEIfIUvBDg][inet[/10.0.1.10:9300]]{master=true,
zone=zone_spop-sjc} marked shard as started, but shard has not been
created, mark shard as failed]



On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Ashish Nigam <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Production cluster is in yellow state for more than a day now. I do see
> that unassigned shards are decreasing, but at a very slow pace. (600 shards
> in last 5 hours)
> So, I decided to remove very old indexes and also allocate unassigned
> shards using reroute command. Unfortunately, all commands are returning
> with this error -
>
> {
>
>   "error" : 
> "RemoteTransportException[[search00][inet[/10.0.1.10:9300]][cluster/reroute]];
> nested: ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException[failed to process cluster event
> (cluster_reroute (api)) within 30s]; ",
>
>   "status" : 503
> }
>
> Why I am getting this error consistently? And any idea how to speed up
> recovery and also be able to execute commands?
>
> Another data point is that cluster went to yellow state as one node went
> out of the cluster and then joined back after sometime.
>
> Thanks
> Ashish
>

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