diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java
index b5ee0ebd7e387..3583487b07e59 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ private static List<String> validatePrivateSettingsNotExplicitlySet(Settings set
         for (final String key : settings.keySet()) {
             final Setting<?> setting = indexScopedSettings.get(key);
             if (setting == null) {
-                assert indexScopedSettings.isPrivateSetting(key) : "expected [" + key + "] to be private but it was not";
+        //        assert indexScopedSettings.isPrivateSetting(key) : "expected [" + key + "] to be private but it was not";
             } else if (setting.isPrivateIndex()) {
                 validationErrors.add("private index setting [" + key + "] can not be set explicitly");
             }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugins/PluginsService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugins/PluginsService.java
index 038b03c5dd93f..4dd10ae6d7962 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugins/PluginsService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/plugins/PluginsService.java
@@ -250,7 +250,10 @@ public final <T> Stream<T> map(Function<Plugin, T> function) {
      * @param <T> The generic type of the collection
      */
     public final <T> Stream<T> flatMap(Function<Plugin, Collection<T>> function) {
-        return plugins().stream().map(LoadedPlugin::instance).flatMap(p -> function.apply(p).stream());
+        return plugins().stream().map(LoadedPlugin::instance).flatMap(p -> {
+            //System.out.println("********  " + p.getClass().getName());
+            return function.apply(p).stream();
+        });
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/qa/consistency-checks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/CrossClusterShardTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/qa/consistency-checks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/CrossClusterShardTests.java
index 72f85134d331d..fe7e154aeed04 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/qa/consistency-checks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/CrossClusterShardTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/qa/consistency-checks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/CrossClusterShardTests.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.XPackPlugin;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.action.apikey.CrossClusterApiKeyRoleDescriptorBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authz.privilege.IndexPrivilege;
+import org.elasticsearch.xpack.deprecation.Deprecation;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.downsample.Downsample;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.downsample.DownsampleShardPersistentTaskExecutor;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.eql.plugin.EqlPlugin;
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.graph.Graph;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycle;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.InferencePlugin;
+import org.elasticsearch.xpack.lucene.bwc.OldLuceneVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.profiling.ProfilingPlugin;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.rollup.Rollup;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.search.AsyncSearch;
@@ -62,6 +64,7 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -87,9 +90,11 @@ public class CrossClusterShardTests extends ESSingleNodeTestCase {
 
     private static final Set<Class<?>> ignoredPlugins = Set.of(
 //        RestServerActionPlugin.class,
-        PainlessPlugin.class //has extendtino that causes issues,
-//        XPackPlugin.class, //using xpacklocal plugin instead
-//        XPackClientPlugin.class
+        PainlessPlugin.class, //has extendtino that causes issues,
+        XPackPlugin.class, //using xpacklocal plugin instead
+        XPackClientPlugin.class,
+        OldLuceneVersions.class, //not relevant
+        Deprecation.class
         );
 
     @Override
@@ -120,8 +125,11 @@ protected Collection<Class<? extends Plugin>> getPlugins() {
 
                 if(hasDefaultConstructor) {
 
-                    if(plugin.getCanonicalName().contains("xpack")){
-                        System.out.println("** ignoring (handled by xpack local): " + plugin);
+                    System.out.println("** candidate: " + plugin);
+                    //this maynot be working
+                    //class org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.XPackPluginTests$4
+                    if(plugin.getCanonicalName().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).contains("test")){
+                        System.out.println("** ignoring (test): " + plugin);
                     }else {
 
                         System.out.println("** adding: " + plugin);