Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Problem:
When adding a server to the farm, the "Windows SharePoint Services Web Application" is stuck in a starting state
Symptom:
In Central Admin, Services on Server, status is "Starting"
Solution:
From the command line:
stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype SPWebService
You will get this:
Operation completed successfully.
If this is a Web service, IIS must be restarted for the change to take effect.
To restart IIS, open a command prompt window and type "iisreset /noforce".
Service is now started and it is possible to start other services successfully.
Problem:
SharePoint Configuration Wizard stuck at task 8 of 9
Symptom:
This appears in the upgrade.log file:
[SPManager] [DEBUG] [12/22/2009 1:56:15 PM]: SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
[SPManager] [DEBUG] [12/22/2009 1:56:25 PM]: SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
[SPManager] [DEBUG] [12/22/2009 1:56:35 PM]: SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
[SPManager] [DEBUG] [12/22/2009 1:56:45 PM]: SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
[SPManager] [DEBUG] [12/22/2009 1:56:55 PM]: SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds
Solution:
Set the following services to manual startup and shut them off:
World wide web service
Microsoft Single Sign-on Service
Windows Sharepoint Services Search
Restart spadmin and sptimer services
If needed: Command line with C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN>psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force