SPSearch Crashed (No Index File Path amongst other potential problems)
All, I was out of the office last week on vacation and came back to our SharePoint portal search being down. I've tried everything from starting/stopping the service to manually changing the index location in an attempt to re-index the entire portal. Simply put, trying to modify the Search Settings for our live site results in the following error: Central Admin: No Indexer Error Upon clicking through to try and setup the indexer, I select the server and am not given the option to select the indexer path. So I try to submit the form anyway and receive an error indicating that I'm missing the "index file path." Missing index file path I did manually change the index location using STSADM and that seems to have done nothing. The directory gets populated with what I assume are the correct SharePoint files, but nothing is actually getting crawled and I still can't access the Search Settings. STSADM: New index location Below is an additional screenshot of our Event Log, just in case that helps. System Event Log (Search Error 10032) Thanks in advance everyone.
January 21st, 2011 2:36pm

The only thing I can think of that happened while I was out was that an engineer went in and replaced a failed drive in our array (the drive had failed awhile ago). The array was rebuilt successfully. I have rebooted the server, created a new index location (as shown in the console screenshot), and verified that the account password for SPSharedServices (the account listed when you are selecting the indexer and all that) had not been changed. These DB connection string errors are really mind boggling (error 0xc0041228), as are all of these Office Server Search "Gatherer" errors which have apparently been going on since January. Simply put, the individual who established this SP site did not provide any documentation and actually left the company before walking out. I'm mildly SharePoint proficient but I have no clue where he left off. I foresee a complete reinstall in the near future, but getting the search back up now would be nice.
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January 21st, 2011 3:10pm

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