INTRODUCTION

Everything was working fine only until recently where the User Profile Service status was going back to “Starting”. I then tried to delete the Service Application and start again but it failed. It popped-out with “Deleting” window but nothing happens.

I tried to provision a new Service Application and same. It opened the modal window but nothing happened.

I wait and wait and wait..the modal window was still there.

I look in Event Viewer – NOTHING.

In SharePoint logs I got bunch of these error messages

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01/27/2011 10:56:00.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {C10E192E-48AE-4894-970C-419DFF5BEBCE} e1addf21-07d2-42b8-b6c0-d4a9e4faa6c9

01/27/2011 10:56:00.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 71344b5d-5ce5-45ec-a342-c0753d3c6890

01/27/2011 10:56:00.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {E5A8B66A-8E77-4D70-9CEF-BDED793D9992} 71344b5d-5ce5-45ec-a342-c0753d3c6890

01/27/2011 10:56:11.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 328ca9f8-b5dd-48c9-a636-49c6480ed884

01/27/2011 10:56:11.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {8145D0E6-3343-446F-96FE-12D0F7D60F44} 328ca9f8-b5dd-48c9-a636-49c6480ed884

01/27/2011 10:56:14.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 1bfc2aab-9a80-4b7f-bdea-6fdc1f835cbe

01/27/2011 10:56:14.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {9FEC67F0-BBB6-42CF-8392-709561BA8B79} 1bfc2aab-9a80-4b7f-bdea-6fdc1f835cbe

01/27/2011 10:56:15.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 22502636-fdbd-4188-92b9-3a2b1afda0fa

01/27/2011 10:56:15.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {4F0CAA3B-986E-4177-95D3-BA4F72987A33} 22502636-fdbd-4188-92b9-3a2b1afda0fa

01/27/2011 10:56:16.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> ef5fff02-4240-4627-822f-4d3e243f030a

01/27/2011 10:56:16.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {7F455781-C720-4379-910C-E5A5AAA0F110} ef5fff02-4240-4627-822f-4d3e243f030a

01/27/2011 10:56:30.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 7ed267ea-ab6f-4c3b-8fe9-e6d954ee667a

01/27/2011 10:56:30.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {4F0CAA3B-986E-4177-95D3-BA4F72987A33} 7ed267ea-ab6f-4c3b-8fe9-e6d954ee667a

01/27/2011 10:56:35.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 28348254-d85f-48fa-9302-76b55e108cb0

01/27/2011 10:56:35.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {BE860398-C52F-448E-96E5-4A175F124A88} 28348254-d85f-48fa-9302-76b55e108cb0

01/27/2011 10:56:37.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 0af5c072-c9fe-4fdf-a97a-947ddf7cb34a

01/27/2011 10:56:37.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {DA969F44-03A0-4EE7-B40F-6CC1DB88B680} 0af5c072-c9fe-4fdf-a97a-947ddf7cb34a

01/27/2011 10:56:39.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 1f9f9005-5639-47bf-88d5-bf07e9b43ac7

01/27/2011 10:56:39.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {784D9077-D1C4-4576-94AD-9BD964284006} 1f9f9005-5639-47bf-88d5-bf07e9b43ac7

01/27/2011 10:56:45.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> ff8e5ec2-eb06-4c96-8144-305a7a8e68ff

01/27/2011 10:56:45.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {4F0CAA3B-986E-4177-95D3-BA4F72987A33} ff8e5ec2-eb06-4c96-8144-305a7a8e68ff

01/27/2011 10:56:50.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> e9ac1dd3-6dfa-441f-89df-3eb5ba870da0

01/27/2011 10:56:50.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {E823529E-671D-4F13-92F9-D516FBB888BF} e9ac1dd3-6dfa-441f-89df-3eb5ba870da0

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RESOLUTION

I’m not sure what caused it but I then tried to restart the SP Timer Service and it all worked now! The modal window is closed and the User Profile Service Application was stopped and deleted properly. The newly created Service Application was also created successfully.

Hope this helps,

Tommy