Timer Job Status - Running

Question

On the Timer Job Status page, under Running Jobs, I have the following jobs listed which seem to have made no progress for two days. Any ideas? Is there a way to safely remove them? I've cleaned out the job cache and restarted the server several times.

Job Title	Server	Progress		Status	Started
Scheduled Unpublish		50%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Application Server Timer Job		0%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Scheduled Unpublish		50%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Scheduled Approval		99%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Scheduled Approval		50%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Scheduled Unpublish		99%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Scheduled Approval		50%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
Application Server Administration Service Timer Job		0%		Running	5/22/2012 11:58 AM
User Profile Service Application 201109 - Social Rating Synchronization Job		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:00 PM
Health Analysis Job (Hourly, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Timer, Any Server)		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:00 PM
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Usage Data Import		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:00 PM
Health Analysis Job (Hourly, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Timer, All Servers)		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:00 PM
Content Type Hub		100%		Running	5/22/2012 4:15 PM
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Master Job		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:15 PM
User Profile Service Application 201109 - User Profile to SharePoint Quick Synchronization		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:20 PM
User Profile Service Application 201109 - User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:20 PM
Search Health Monitoring - Trace Events		0%		Running	5/22/2012 4:20 PM

Answer 1

Are you sure your SharePoint Timer Service is running?

Try the following:

1. Start > Run > cmd
2. net stop sptimerv4
3. net start sptimerv4

This will perform a restart of your timer service. Recommended to complete this after hours as this is like ripping the carpet out from under the timer job service.

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Answer 2

I've tried this already (via Administrative Tools > Services, and restarting the SharePoint 2010 Timer service) but they just seem to stay there. Might be a symptom of something else.