SharePoint 2010: No new ULS logs being generated
Problem: Customer discovered that the ULS logs had stopped generating. Within the Logs file there were files but from an old date.
Troubleshooting: I looked in Event viewer and found this:
Tracing Service failed to create the trace log file at location specified in SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\LogDir Error 0x0: The operation completed successfully. . Traces will be written to the following directory: C:\Windows\SERVIC~2\LOCALS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\.
Resolution:
- In Central Admin go to Monitoring>>Configure diagnostic logging
- changed the ‘Path’ value to C:\Temp and then back to D:\SharePoint\Logs
(They have the logs being written to the D drive which is common, changing it back and forth resolved this problem)
Fight Comparison
Fedor vs Arlovski: This was an easy one that was a weird resolution but it worked. Kind of like when Fedor was getting pushed back by Arlovski, and then decided to throw a Hail Mary punch to his face, knocking him out cold.
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Good finding Sal! I'm just wondering whether you can post the Event ID which was showing you the error related to the Tracing Service.
Thanks!- Anonymous
July 19, 2016
Hi the event ID is 2163
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
March 13, 2014
Thanks it worked! - Anonymous
March 13, 2014
sometimes it doesn't work if tracing service is using ad account instead of local system account. using ad account it creates a log file of 0kb. - Anonymous
April 14, 2015
It worked, after I restarted the Tracing service afterwards. Thanks for a good post :o) - Anonymous
July 17, 2015
Still works in SP 2013. Thanks. - Anonymous
July 24, 2015
work like a charm, thanks for sharing. - Anonymous
July 24, 2015
Thanks for Sharing. - Anonymous
August 05, 2015
this is really helpful when C drive is out of space. - Anonymous
August 05, 2015
this is really helpful when C drive is out of space. - Anonymous
April 13, 2016
hi what about the those logs that missed dates , we can found in temp folder?