No information about site collection

Hi All,
I came across a strange issue where I can not browse the root site collection, I am also not able to see the information about the site collection, though I can see the browse the other site collection in the same DB.
Any clue??

Use PowerShell (Get-SPSite "http://webUrl/"). Does that bring any information? If not, try creating one.
Trevor Seward
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