HI,
We have a server (Server 1), on which the status of the Distributed cache was in "Error Starting" state.
While applying a service pack due to some issue we were unable to apply the path (Server 1) so we decided to remove the effected server from the farm and work on it. the effected server (Server 1) was removed from the farm through the configuration wizard.
Even after running the configuration wizard we were still able to see the server (Server 1) on the SharePoint central admin site (Servers in farm) when clicked, the service "Distributed cache" was still visible with a status "Error Starting", tried deleting the server from the farm and got an error message, the ULS logs displayed the below.
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A failure occurred in SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::UnprovisionInternal. cacheHostInfo is null for host 'servername'.8130ae9c-e52e-80d7-aef7-ead5fa0bc999
A failure occurred SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::UnprovisionInternal()... isGraceFulShutDown 'False' , isGraceFulShutDown, Exception 'System.InvalidOperationException: cacheHostInfo is null at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities.SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance.UnProvisionInternal(Boolean
isGraceFulShutDown)'8130ae9c-e52e-80d7-aef7-ead5fa0bc999
A failure occurred SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::UnProvision() , Exception 'System.InvalidOperationException: cacheHostInfo is null at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities.SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance.UnProvisionInternal(Boolean
isGraceFulShutDown) at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities.SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance.Unprovision()'8130ae9c-e52e-80d7-aef7-ead5fa0bc999
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We are unable to perform any operation install/repair of SharePoint on the effected server (Server 1), as the server is no longer in the farm, we are unable to run any powershell commands.
Questions:-
What would cause that to happen?
Is there a way to resolve this issue? (please provide the steps)
Satyam