Doing a thorough job of deleting all indexes got my installation back to status yellow, apparently fully functional when I re-established my test index with a new name. Sledgehammer, but I didn't need to sow the ground with salt.
On Friday, November 21, 2014 11:21:26 AM UTC-8, Pitaga wrote: > > When I shutdown and restart Elasticsearch on my Ubuntu laptop, the status > is yellow until I attempt to open an index, at which time the status > changes to red. The output for > > curl "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true"; > > is > > { > "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch", > "status" : "red", > "timed_out" : false, > "number_of_nodes" : 1, > "number_of_data_nodes" : 1, > "active_primary_shards" : 2, > "active_shards" : 2, > "relocating_shards" : 0, > "initializing_shards" : 5, > "unassigned_shards" : 7 > } > > I've tried deleting all but one index, shutting down and restarting. I've > also tried issuing > > curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/testindex2/_settings' -d > '{"index.routing.allocation.disable_allocation": false}' > > shutting down and restarting. I've also tried issuing > > curl XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/reroute?pretty=true' -d > '{"commands" : [ { "allocate" : { "index" : "testindex1", "shard" : 4 , > "node" : "gdVC517DR4OiE0v44_1n5A", "allow_primary" : 1 } }]}’ > > for one particular index and shard, with no apparent effect on the output > of > > curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cluster/state?pretty=true > > In each case, I shutdown with > > curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_shutdown' > > and restarted with > > /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart > > The one remaining undeleted index is currently used only for > experimentation. I can delete and then re-establish it if necessary. Or I > can apply a bigger sledgehammer if necessary. > > I found elements of diagnostics and suggested solutions by searching the > web. I am not now, and possibly I will never be, a qualified Elasticsearch > administrator. I'd be grateful for suggestions on how to fix this, in terms > a child can understand. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/44983fbf-dc7d-498a-9e34-387124fa3225%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
