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SharePoint job queued, but never starts.

I'm attempting to retract a solution from SharePoint. I've started the job via Central Admin site as well as from stsadm. The job is queued, however, it will stay in a state of pending for days. The SharePoint services - Admin and Timer service - are started.

Any suggestoins of why the retraction jobs are queued, but never started? I'm really at a loss of what to try next, so anything will be helpful.

Thank you!

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What happens when you run "STSADM -o execadmsvcjobs" from one of the servers on the farm? this should flush the job queue, displaying any errors occurred along the way.

x0n  2010-04-05 02:38:08
@x0n: Thank you. That command started the queued job. Do you know why the job wouldn't start without running this command?
Eric U.  2010-04-05 12:43:27
I don't know - the job _should_ start by itself; maybe there is some other setting that is preventing this. Unfortunately I've never had this happen, so don't have any pointers...
x0n  2010-04-05 17:19:19
Ran into a similar problem last week. The issue turned out to be at least partly related to permissions on the timer service account - it is possible for the timer service to run without having access to do anything to SharePoint.
Tom Clarkson  2010-04-06 03:44:16

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