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added in note to specify difference of shard vs shard primary terminating and continued access
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source/faq/sharding.txt

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@@ -343,11 +343,15 @@ Consider the following error message:
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:program:`mongod` procudes this message if, during a :ref:`chunk
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migration <sharding-chunk-migration>`, the :term:`shard` could not
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connect to the :term:`config database` to update chunk information. If
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connect to the :term:`config database` to update chunk information at
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the end of the migration process. If
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the shard cannot update the config database after
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:dbcommand:`moveChunk`, the shard cluster will have an inconsistent
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view of all chunks. For this situation, the shard will terminate
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itself to prevent data inconsistency.
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view of all chunks. For this situation, the :term:`primary` member of
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the shard will terminate
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itself to prevent data inconsistency. The :term:`secondary` members of
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the shard will elect a new primary member so that the remainder of the
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shard data is available for access.
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If you encounter this issue, contact the `MongoDB User Group
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<http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user>`_ or 10gen support to

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