Error when starting Incremental Population

Hi all
I have a very large FT catalog on a table.
I have tried to initiate an incremental population
Exec sp_fulltext_catalog 'FT_PATCLAIMS','start_incremental'
and I got the following error :
"Execution of a full-text operation failed. The Gatherer
is shutting down."
I have found no reference to this error on the microsof
site. Has anyone seen this problem before. I would hate to
have to recreate this catalog. It can take a number of
weeks !!!
Thanks
Michael.
Are there any error messages logged in the event log from MSSearch or mssci?
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
|||We had the same issue, it was solved by restarting the 'Microsoft Search'
service.
Cheers
Paul Bell,
DBA UnisysWest
Perth, Western Australia.
"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

> Are there any error messages logged in the event log from MSSearch or mssci?
>
> Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
>
|||Paul,
What issue was that? What error did you get that was resolved by just
restarting the 'Microsoft Search' service?
Thanks,
John
"Paul Bell" <Paul Bell@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We had the same issue, it was solved by restarting the 'Microsoft Search'
> service.
> Cheers
> Paul Bell,
> DBA UnisysWest
> Perth, Western Australia.
> "Hilary Cotter" wrote:
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