SharePoint indexing and crawling pausing issues

Ran into this today, with a few variances on the fixes, so thought I’d bookmark them.

Basically, we’ve been getting this error (or variations) when trying to do a full crawl (or incrementals):

this crawl has been paused by the search system

Appears as though, SQL Database Maintenance Plans are to blame, as is outlined below:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/930887/en-us

and…

http://www.21apps.com/2007/07/sql-maintenance-plans-and-moss-give-100.html

and here…

http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/michael/Blog/brainlitterarchive/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=4

The last one is the most informative…

Also, this popup occurred around the same time “This crawl has been paused by the search system while a new query server is added. After the new query service is online, the crawl will be resumed” when trying to start a full crawl, but this seems to be related to the Search/Indexing Share being turned off (someone configured Office Search incorrectly).

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