Need help with Sharepoint foundation web application stuck on "STOPPING" error job-service-instance-GUID Number already exists

Question

I cant get to stop SharePoint foundation web app service. Its stuck on status stopping I have tried the following:

1. reset IIS

2. restarted the Timer Service

When I try to use powershell command to stop I get the following error:

Can anyone who went through this help PLEASE

Stop-SPServiceInstance : An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceInstanceJobDefinition named "job-service-instance-1ff39eb2-12d2-457d-a749-265e350eb1b1" already exists under the parent Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerService named "SPTimerV4". Rename your object or delete the existing object. At line:1 char:127 + ... pplication"} | Stop-SPServiceInstance + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...ServiceInstance: SPCmdletStopServiceInstance) [Stop-SPServiceInstance], SPDuplicateObjectEx ception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletStopServ iceInstance

Answer 1

I think I've had simmilar problem. Make sure both SharePoint Timer and Administration services are running.

To get the status with PowerShell:

Get-Service sptimerv4, spadminv4

Restart services:

Get-Service sptimerv4, spadminv4 | ? Status -NE Running | Restart-Service

Answer 2

Provision the service and re-start IIS. This was resolved in one of the CU updates. By the way on which SharePoint-CU version you are ?

Answer 3

I had the same issue. It seems that the job was not able to be stopped in the original server. It can run on a different app server. These are the steps that I follow to successfully delete that job

#trying to get a list of the SP timer jobs
Get-SPTimerJob | Where-Object {$_.Name -Like "job-service-instance-*"} | Sort-Object Name | Select-Object name, ID, Status

Then you get the jobID, and that status that says that it is "online" when I try to disable it through PS:

#this PS "should" disable that timer job, but it doesn't work
Disable-SPTimerJob -Identity "<GUID>"

it did nothing. It keep saying that the job was still online. I even went and restart SP timer job, but it did nothing. I've found this article from TechNet: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/okoestner/2010/04/28/how-to-delete-a-timer-job-definition

this is the code that I ran:

#this code WORKS.!
stsadm.exe -o deleteconfigurationobject -id <GUID>

now, I can run the ups autofixer from SharePoint Bjorn and get my ups running.

hope this helps someone