SharePoint (2003 thru Online): Crawling Issue

Monday, September 15, 2014

Crawling Issue


We stopped crawling under Shared Services Administration: Shared Services > Search Settings > Content Sources and selected one of the existing content sources .  But still it is showing "stopping " status. All the options are also disabled except "Edit" and "View Crawl Log". We are interested only in stopping the crawling of a particular "Content source" which we tried to stop. I am guessing "stsadm-o spsearch-action fullcrawlstop " would stop crawling of all content sources.

It cannot be stopped from SSP -> Manage Content Sources page in your case, you need to run this command stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstop, and reboot the server then check result again.


If you haven't done so already, try running "stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs" to flush out any jobs that are running. 

You can stop the search Service itself in Windows. 

Go to a command prompt and type "net stop osearch
After the service stops type "net start osearch" See if that helps.

If you still have issues stopping the Crawl, Go to Reset Crawled Content, check the 'Deactivate search alerts during reset'.

No comments:

Post a Comment