Hello SharePointers,
Yesterday I faced an issue with SharePoint 2013 search. I retrieved logs and found an error message as w3wp.exe – all query processing components are in ‘failed’ status.
Error
SharePoint 2013 search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact your administrator.
Correlation ID:
The correlation ID for an issue is – 790b329e-391e-2001-cdad-4e0d6da3b38c
The first thing we noticed on the server is that the C:\ drive is almost full. that means there was no disk space on the server. So I went ahead and clear some space by deleting unwanted files from the disk.
I went ahead an retrieved logs and found an error with w3wp process.
w3wp.exe
All query processing components are in ‘failed’ status
Solution.
While checking the search service application, I saw a warning icon for the index partition and searchable items “All Errors”.
![Solved: w3wp.exe - All Query Processing Components Are in 'Failed' Status](https://i0.wp.com/www.sharepointgems.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image.png?resize=623%2C410&ssl=1)
So we now got an exact error which is causing search results to load. I also know the solution of this issue.
To resolve this issue, we need to Reset the search Index.
Please Note: Reset Index will remove the content index stored, So we need to run the full crawl to rebuild the index once all search components are stored healthy.
![All Query Processing Components Are in 'Failed' Status](https://i0.wp.com/www.sharepointgems.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image-1.png?resize=624%2C140&ssl=1)
Reset Index will take few minutes. The next steps should be restart the search services.
- SharePoint server Search
- SharePoint Search Host Controller
Now, this will turn all search components Healthy/green.
![All Query Processing Components Are in 'Failed' Status](https://i0.wp.com/www.sharepointgems.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image-2.png?resize=626%2C94&ssl=1)
Now the last thing, just go ahead and perform a Search Operation on SharePoint site. This will so us the SharePoint search results.
![w3wp.exe - All Query Processing Components Are in 'Failed' Status](https://i0.wp.com/www.sharepointgems.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image-3.png?resize=521%2C288&ssl=1)
Now the last step, Just go ahead and perform a FULL CRAWL on content sources. Once Full crawls completes it will display search results.
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