Timer
service terminated with service-specific error or Timer service terminated unexpectedly in share point
This is an
issue that face every SharePoint administrator many times in their experience.
This could be of many reasons. In this article I am providing the reason that
cause the issue as per my experience.
Due to the
issue with the timer service we see the other parts like Alerts, Backups,
Search and UPS also stops working
When I tried to retract a solution, but the status showing
"Retracting" only for long time. After digging in events, I figure
out that the issue is with the SharePoint Timer service on one of the servers
crashed every couple of minutes. The event log showed the following errors.
Events:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7024
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: [Server name]
Description:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147467259.
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7024
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: [Server name]
Description:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147467259.
and
Log Name:
System
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7031
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: [Server name]
Description:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 3 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 30000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7031
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: [Server name]
Description:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 3 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 30000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Solution: Ensure to follow the below steps to resolve the issue
·
Open the
Registry Editor
·
Browse to
HKLM > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Shared Tools > Web Server Extensions
> 14.0 > Secure > ConfigDB(For SharePoint 2013,Its 15.0)
·
Copy the
value in the property "Id"
·
Browse to
folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config and create a folder with the
name of the previously copied value
·
Restart the
SharePoint Timer service
·
The folder should be populated with XML files after restart