Index creation time using ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException

Question

I suddenly cannot create an index (either explicitly or by indexing something into an index that does not exist). Other operations are great (indexing, searching). The error I get in security.log :

 [2015-02-10 15:48:46,303][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.create] [eu4] [yoptest2] failed to create org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException: failed to process cluster event (create-index [yoptest2], cause [auto(index api)]) within 1m at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$2$1.run(InternalClusterService.java:263) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) 

This is a cluster of three machines (green green), and I get the same timeout no matter which node I hit.

What could be the reason?

Answer 1

I have a problem reloading all nodes. This is not a solution, I do not know the cause of the problem, but at least everything works again.

Answer 2

This will be solved simply by stopping the service and restarting the service. For Windows, you can start by running elasticsearch.bat from the bin folder.