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I've recently had some trouble with search in my SharePoint 2010 environment and thought I'd finally seen the end of it. Turns out I was wrong because now when anyone tries to search from anywhere within my site collection they get this error:

Search error
Each time someone searches the Correlation ID is different but I pulled this data out of ULS viewer (for the sake of formatting I'm just going to list the Level and Message columns for each item under the same Correlation ID):

  • (Medium) Name=Request (GET:http://xxxx:80/search/results.aspx?k=search&cs=This%20Site&u=http%3A%2F%2Fflspvm)
  • (Medium) Site=/
  • (High) Leaving Monitored Scope (PostResolveRequestCacheHandler). Execution Time=10.0834044550355
  • (Medium) SearchBoxEx AfterDeserialize begin
  • (Medium) SearchBoxEx AfterDeserialize end
  • (Unexpected) CoreResultsWebPart::OnInit: Exception initializing: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader()
    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs e)
  • (Exception) Internal server error exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader()
    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs e) System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader()
    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs e)
  • (Monitorable) Watson bucket parameters: SharePoint Server 2010, ULSException14, 06175311 "sharepoint server search", 0e00178d "14.0.6029.0", 17853a8f "microsoft.office.server.search", 0e0017da "14.0.6106.0", 4def6b97 "wed jun 08 08:31:19 2011", 00003297 "00003297", 0000002d "0000002d", 4a6d3421 "nullreferenceexception", 67316a39 "g1j9"
  • (Medium) Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://xxxx:80/search/results.aspx?k=search&cs=This%20Site&u=http%3A%2F%2Fxxxx)). Execution Time=32.3624929984118

I honestly have no idea where to begin. What do I do to resolve this?

Mike
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newuser
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    Did you checked that the SharePoint timer and SharePoint Search Service are running? Also have a IISReset (or even go for a full reboot at extremes) and make sure these Services are starting properly. Ocassionally expired/changed passwords could also be the cause of services not starting – Marius Constantinescu Aug 08 '12 at 18:58
  • ..also it might the case the your Search Service Application Proxy is not functioning properly, you could easily re-create it using this http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/5238/sharepoint-2010-error-when-searching-in-coreresultswebpartoninit – Marius Constantinescu Aug 08 '12 at 18:59
  • Now I feel dumb. IISReset fixed it. Post that as an answer and I'll give you the checkmark. – newuser Aug 08 '12 at 19:14

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Did you checked that the SharePoint timer and SharePoint Search Service are running? Also have a IISReset (or even go for a full reboot at extremes) and make sure these Services are starting properly. Ocassionally expired/changed passwords could also be the cause of services not starting.

Marius Constantinescu
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Have you edited your Core Search Results Webpart properties at all? Have you deleted some Managed Metadata properties in search? You can get a null reference exception when the xslt is attempting to reference or access a property it can't find.

A good way of testing this out is creating a new page and adding a core search results web part. That will get settings back to default. If you still get an error the problem is not with the webpart. Hope that helps.

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Found the error. Search Service and Timer Service were stuck.

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