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MOSS 2007 crawl never ends

From: "Peter Lawton"
Subject: MOSS 2007 crawl never ends
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:31:17 -0000
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

I'm having a lot of problems with the indexer on MOSS 2007, it's starts a full crawl and never ends.

I can't stop the crawl or reset the index from central admin, can't even stop the mssearch service from the services control panel it just sticks at "stopping"

I've installed it clean about 10 times now and even with no content, just a couple of site collections, once a full crawl starts it never stops and ends up with over 3000 connections to the search database.

W2003 32bit front end and a separate SQL 2005 x64 back end.

Anyone come across this and found the cause?

I'm getting desprate now and I've spent a week re-building MOSS 2007 from scratch over and over again, every time I get the same problem.

Thanks

Peter Lawton

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From: <Mike discussions microsoft com>
Subject: RE: MOSS 2007 crawl never ends
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:32:00 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

I had this problem and following command fixed it:

stsadm –o osearch –action stop
stsadm –o osearch –action start -role indexQuery

This will stop the microsoft office search service and restart it.

Mike.

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From: <Daniel discussions microsoft com>
Subject: RE: MOSS 2007 crawl never ends
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:19:00 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

Hi,

I also experience the same problem with the crawler that never ends. There are no Errors in the Eventlog or Crawl log indicating any type of problem. The search works fine except that the crawler never ends, seems like its stuck in an neverending loop after some 20 000 items in the index.

This is a great problem that must be fixed immediatly becuse this problem occurs on a production server and it seems to be an obvious bug in the system. The server is latest MOSS2007 Release Version.

/Daniel

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From: <Daniel
Subject: RE: MOSS 2007 crawl never ends
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:49:00 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

One more thing. When i run the "stsadm –o osearch –action stop" command the status is still "Crawling" after an half hour. The Crawling seems to be unable to stop and so seems the osearch service!

I need help with this issue.

/Daniel

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From: "Peter Lawton"
Subject: Re: MOSS 2007 crawl never ends
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:28:19 -0000
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

Same problem here too

stsadm -o osearch -action stop

Doesn't stop the crawl.

There must be some way to fix this :(

Peter Lawton

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From: <Hardeep discussions microsoft com>
Subject: Re: MOSS 2007 crawl never ends
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:47:01 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

Here is the solution to fix it:

1. Go to SQL Server database SharedServices1_Search_DB and delete the records from all the tables with crawlID column (ex. CrawlHistory table).

2. This will stop the crawl.

3. Create a new SharedService with new database using SharePoint Centeral Admin

4. Set new Shared Service to default.

5. Delete the old Shared Service.

6. Setup the crawl rules and run the full crawl.

You'll get clean search crawl results.

Hardeep

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