# 🛠️ Breaking the Migration Lockge
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The "Another process is migrating" error occurs when the dashboard service is interrupted while recreating its internal indices. Follow these steps **in exact order** to clear the lock.
1
### Stop the Dashboard Service
You must stop the service to ensure no active processes are attempting to write to the index during the cleanup.
```
sudo systemctl stop wazuh-dashboard
```
2
### Clear the Stuck System Index
This removes the "half-finished" index that is causing the `resource_already_exists_exception` and migration lock.
```
curl -k -u admin:'' -X DELETE https://localhost:9200/.kibana*
```
3
### Start and Allow Initialization
Restart the service. The dashboard will now see that the index is missing and recreate it cleanly.
```
sudo systemctl start wazuh-dashboard
```
#### ⚠️ The "5-Minute Rule"
**Do not refresh your browser for 5 minutes.** The dashboard is performing a heavy background migration. Interrupting this will recreate the migration lock, forcing you back to Step 1.