Timer service terminated unexpectedly error 7031 7024

Errors in the System log

Log Name:      SystemSource:        Service Control ManagerDate:          8/31/2011 11:53:35 AMEvent ID:      7031Task Category: NoneLevel:         ErrorKeywords:      ClassicUser:          N/AComputer:      Description:The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 479 time(s). The following corrective actionwill be taken in 30000 milliseconds: Restart the service.Log Name:      SystemSource:        Service Control ManagerDate:          8/31/2011 11:53:35 AMEvent ID:      7024Task Category: NoneLevel:         ErrorKeywords:      ClassicUser:          N/AComputer:      Description:The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated withservice-specific error 2147500037 (0x80004005).

Both errors appeared every 3 minutes.

Cause

Well in our particular case a developer asked me to change the owstimer.exe.config file (and restart the timer service) to configure a specific timer job.

Solution

In this case, obvious, I think. Replacing the owstimer.exe.config file to its originally settings, which are:

Other causes/solutions:

When I searched the internet for solutions I also found this post by Yorick here. Problem was a missing GUID named folder and the solution recreating that folder. Check his blogpost if my solution did not solve anything for you.

Tags: error, SP2010, timer service

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