Did you find any pointer to possible cause of this in the ULS logs or Windows Log.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Nigel Witherdin <nigel_wither...@hotmail.com > wrote: > Probably as a last resort > > Cheers, > > ------------------------------ > From: jos...@beyondurban.com > To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:38:58 -0700 > > Subject: RE: Search Crawl stuck in Stopping State > > Seen this a few time unfortunately. > > > > The only way I have been able to resolve this is to delete the search > service app. Is this an option? > > > > Cheers > > > > Josh > > > > > > *From:* ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] *On > Behalf Of *Nigel Witherdin > *Sent:* Thursday, 4 August 2011 11:32 AM > *To:* OzMoss > *Subject:* RE: Search Crawl stuck in Stopping State > > > > Hi Ken, > > > > I have tried restarting the service from the services.msc snap-in on all > boxes (and confirmed that this did actually remove the "mssearch.exe" > process), and have also tried restarting the timer service on all boxes, but > this did not help > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nigel > ------------------------------ > > From: lied...@hotmail.com > To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com > Subject: RE: Search Crawl stuck in Stopping State > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:58:01 +0930 > > Hi Nigel, > > Have you tried to restart the search service? > > Ken > ------------------------------ > > From: nigel_wither...@hotmail.com > To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com > Subject: Search Crawl stuck in Stopping State > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 01:11:52 +0000 > > Hi All, > > > > At a customer site where the environment is SP 2010 using Enterprise > search, the crawl of the “Local SharePoint site” content source is stuck in > a state of “Stopping”. > > > > Have attempted to force the crawl to stop by using the PowerShell commands: > > > > $searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service > Application" > > $contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource "Local SharePoint > Sites" -SearchApplication $searchapp > > $contentsource.StopCrawl() > > > > However this does not appear to have any affect. Also tried the STSADM > command: > > > > Stsadm –o osearch –action stop > > > > But this gives the response: > > > > 'stop' action failed. Additional information: Invalid search service > unprovisioning: application 'Search Service Application' still has a ready > component '82c100d7-f0f0-4732-b5a6-aef8a7902756-crawl-1' on server > 'SVMSP0000005PR'. > > > > Not sure what is the best way to progress – need to stop the crawl so I can > reconfigure the content source, reset the index and then recrawl the > corpus. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nigel > > > _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list > ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > > > _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list > ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > > _______________________________________________ ozmoss mailing list > ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > > _______________________________________________ > ozmoss mailing list > ozmoss@ozmoss.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > >
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