Problem Description:
Recently
we faced the problem in reference to search and while doing some deployment
activities, we need to pause the running crawl. As soon as I clicked on Pause,
it switched into “Pausing” mode and we waiting to see the idle status.
Farm details:
SQL SERVER2008-R2
WINDOWS 2008-R2
SHAREPOINT 2010- SP1 (Along with latest patches updated)
What was the status when we started facing issue?
In "Manage Services on
Server" (Central Administration):
SharePoint Foundation Search was "Stopped"
SharePoint Server Search is "Stopped"
In "Manage Services
Application" (Central Administration):
Search Administration Web Service for Search Service Application
was "Started"
Search Service Application was "Started"
In Windows Services MMC
SharePoint Foundation Search V4 is "Disabled"
SharePoint Server Search 14 is "Disabled"
SharePoint Server Search 14 is "Automatic" but status is
not "Started"
Attempting
to start "SharePoint Server Search 14” via the Services MMC results in the
error:
Windows could not start the SharePoint Server Search 14 service on
Local Computer.
Error 6: The handle is invalid.
Troubleshooting Done:
1.
Restarted
the search services – by means of services.msc console
2.
Checked
the ‘manage services on server’—by means of Central Administration
3.
Net
stop commands as follows:
stsadm -o
osearch -action stop
then
stsadm -o
osearch -action start
4.
Start-stop
PowerShell commands
5.
Checked
the windows application as well as SP logs
6.
Restarted
the timer services
net
stop SPTimerv4
net
start SPTimerv4
Resolution:
I have
resolved it by using the following command:
Stop-SPServiceInstance
-Identity <ServiceGUID>
Note: Where <ServiceGUID> is
the GUID of the service. If you do not know the service GUID, you can retrieve
a list of all services in the farm together with their GUIDs by using the Get-SPServiceInstance
cmdlet.
Product Applies To:
SharePoint
Server 2010
SharePoint
Foundation 2010
If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned
information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as
well as resolves your issue…
Thank you.
