Continuous crawl cannot be enabled because the disable operation is in progress. Retry to enable it

Question

We are cannot crawl a content source, when we try to enable continous crawl we get the following error message:

Continuous crawl cannot be enabled because the disable operation is in progress. Retry to enable it.

Also, we are not do any type of crawl: Full or Incremental, when we try to do so it stops immediately. I did not see any error in the event logs.

In ULS log I see the following error:

10/05/2015 06:08:53.76 w3wp.exe (SERVER3554:0x091C)
0x16F0 SharePoint Foundation General
ajlz0 High Getting Error Message for Exception System.ServiceModel.FaultException1[System.ServiceModel.ExceptionDetail]: Continuous crawl cannot be enabled because the disable operation is in progress. Retry to enable it. (Fault Detail is equal to An ExceptionDetail, likely created by IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true, whose value is: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Continuous crawl cannot be enabled because the disable operation is in progress. Retry to enable it. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.WriteAndReturnVersion(CodeToRun1 remoteCode, VoidCodeToRun localCode, Int32 versionIn) at SyncInvokeEditContentSource(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]... 46a1349d-ab3f-f046-8084-5fa5b33646d

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Answer 1

I am not sure what happened, but I deleted the content source and created a new one and it worked for me.

Answer 2

Wait a few minutes and then edit your content source to enable Continue Crawl. You cannot change the content source setting while it is still updating the content source. You shouldn't delete/recreate your content source.