Windows SharePoint Services Search will not start (stuck in state “starting”)
Yesterday I tried to move alle our MOSS Databases to a new SQL-Server 2008. Unfortunatly moving the ConfigDB did not work as expected, so I had to create a new Serverfarm and assign the ContentDB to this new farm. Everything worked well, but when trying to configure the Windows SharePoint Services Search the service stuck in the state “starting” in Central Administration. It was not possible to stop the service or change the data of the service.
First I tried to restart the service in Windows Service Management, but that had no effect. After trying for some time, I found a stsadm command to stop the service:
stsadm -o spsearch -action stop
This deactivated the service in Windows Service Management and it was possible to start the service in Central Administation. Bevor doing so, I deleted the associated Search DB (WSS_Search or something). After starting a FullCrawl in SSP, everything worked fine.
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