'Failed to create the 'Pages' library.' Content type not found in web

Question

When trying to create an Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint 2010 the following error occurred:

Event log messages:

05/15/2014 11:06:46.41 w3wp.exe (0x1350) 0x1CF8 Web Content Management Publishing Provisioning 8fia Exception CreatePagesDocumentLibrary failed. Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Content type '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39' not found in web '%YOURSITE%'. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetContentType(SPWeb web, SPContentTypeId contentTypeId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.CreatePagesDocumentLibrary(SPList approvalTaskList) 5ac502be-9db9-4ad4-8a72-8b4ae48ea2d9

05/15/2014 11:06:46.44 w3wp.exe (0x1350) 0x1CF8 SharePoint Server Unified Logging Service c91s Monitorable Watson bucket parameters: SharePoint Server 2010, ULSException14, 81eed5e0 "web content management", 0e00178d "14.0.6029.0", cbe1bb56 "microsoft.sharepoint.publishing", 0e0017e4 "14.0.6116.0", 4f1635ec "tue jan 17 20:01:00 2012", 000001c7 "000001c7", 00000040 "00000040", d229b6b2 "spexception:80131600", 38666961 "8fia" 5ac502be-9db9-4ad4-8a72-8b4ae48ea2d9

05/15/2014 11:06:46.45 w3wp.exe (0x1350) 0x1CF8 Web Content Management Publishing Provisioning 4965 Critical Event log message was: 'Failed to create the 'Pages' library.'. Exception was: 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Content type '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39' not found in web '%YOURSITE%'. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetContentType(SPWeb web, SPContentTypeId contentTypeId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.CreatePagesDocumentLibrary(SPList approvalTaskList)' 5ac502be-9db9-4ad4-8a72-8b4ae48ea2d9

05/15/2014 11:06:46.48 w3wp.exe (0x1350) 0x1CF8 Web Content Management Publishing Provisioning 75ot Unexpected Publishing Feature activation failed. Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to create the 'Pages' library. OriginalException: Content type '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39' not found in web '%YOURSITE%'. ---> Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Content type '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39' not found in web '%YOURSITE%'. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetContentType(SPWeb web, SPContentTypeId contentTypeId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.CreatePagesDocumentLibrary(SPList approvalTaskList) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---... 5ac502be-9db9-4ad4-8a72-8b4ae48ea2d9

05/15/2014 11:06:46.48* w3wp.exe (0x1350) 0x1CF8 Web Content Management Publishing Provisioning 75ot Unexpected ... at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.CreatePagesDocumentLibrary(SPList approvalTaskList) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.Provision() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingFeatureHandler.<>c__DisplayClass4.b__0() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.CultureUtility.RunWithCultureScope(CodeToRunWithCultureScope code) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CmsSecurityUtilities.RunWithWebCulture(SPWeb web, CodeToRun webCultureDependentCode) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingFeatureHandler.FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties receiverProperties). 5ac502be-9db9-4ad4-8a72-8b4ae48ea2d9

Answer 1

The problem is related to the Publishing features. To resolve the issue:

1. Go to Site Settings
2. Click Site collection features
3. Deactivate the 'SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure' feature
4. Reactivate the 'SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure' feature
5. Go back to Site Settings
6. Click Manage site features
7. Activate the 'SharePoint Server Publishing' feature

This resolved the problem for me.