We appear to be having problems with our Distributed Cache service. We have never seen anything in the newsfeed. It always says "It's pretty quiet here. Follow more people to see activity in your newsfeed, or see what Everyone is talking about." If you click everyone it reads "We're still collecting the latest news. You may see more if you try again a little later." In the event logs we will see
"The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob (ID be39733d-14b4-4a31-82be-cb9cd5494a34) threw an exception. More information is included below.
Unexpected exception in FeedCacheService.IsRepopulationNeeded: Connection to the server terminated,check if the cache host(s) is running ."
So we execute get-cachehost and it reports there is no cluster. We run use-cachecluster and it starts and we can see the service is up with get-cachehost. i.e.
HostName : servername.domain.com
PortNo : 22233
ServiceName : AppFabricCachingService
Status : Up
VersionInfo : 3[3,3][1,3]
Looking in the ULS logs I see.
LMTRepopulationJob.IsRepopulationNeeded - FeedCacheServer.IsRepopulationNeeded returned False
LMTRepopulationJob.DoRepopulation - The job was completed successfully. Sent 0 LMT entries.
LMTRepopulationJob.Execute - Repopulation is done.
LMTRepopulationJob.Execute - Job is exiting after saving its state.
A short time later the service will crash again and we have to repeat this. During the time it is up we still never see anything in the feeds.
this is a production sharepoint 2013 Enterprise Server with PU and CU from April installed. We have made sure that the permissions on the User Profile Service are correct with proper farm accounts (app pool and serverfarm full control)
Any ideas?