After a failed install of the Reporting Services add-in the SharePoint Timer Service keeps restarting every few min with the following errors in the event log.
- Event ID: 7024 The SharePoint Timer Service service terminated with the following service-specific error: Unspecified error
- Event ID: 7031 The SharePoint Timer Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 34 time(s). The followingcorrective action will be taken in 30000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
There is a timer job named "Upgrade Job" that tries to run when the timer service restarts, but it fails with the following error.
- The timer service job definition 'job-upgrade' was not executed because the target object 'SPServer Name=<my servername>' was upgrading. The job status is: Aborted.
I tried deleting the job, and restarting the service, but the timer service just creates the job again when it restarts. I found the following entries in the ULS logs related to the timer service.
- The timer service is starting
- Detected upgrade mode regkey
- Updating SPPersistedObject SPUpgradeJobDefinition Name=job-upgrade. Version: -1 Ensure: False, HashCode: 3429838,Id: 542bd36d-febe-45b0-a535-c1d4d6360ae5,
- Ignoring weird value for processor speed: 1995
- Created upgrade job definition id 542bd36d-febe-45b0-a535-c1d4d6360ae5, mode InPlace, entering timer upgrade mode
- Queued timer job Upgrade Job, id {542BD36D-FEBE-45B0-A535-C1D4D6360AE5}
- Name=Timer Job job-upgrade
- Leaving Monitored Scope (Timer Job job-upgrade). Execution Time=1195.1661
I have tried clearing the timer service cache, and checked permissions for the account running the timer service, but neither worked. How do I stop the timer job from creating and executing the Upgrade Job?