Search Crawl Issues in MOSS 2007

Question

Hi All,

From the past few days we are seeing the following error in Search Crawl Logs in MOSS 2007

Type constructor threw an exception. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)

Type constructor threw an exception.

Can anyone let me know how to resolve the same.Thanks in advance

Thanks & Regards,

Sudheer

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Thanks & Regards, Sudheer

Answer 1

Hi Sudheer

             I've had this problem from time to time in our crawl logs too in SP, There are several methods you can try to resolve the issue:

first thing you can try is to check the event viewer, and see if it indicates following error: "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. [CLIENT: <local machine>]"

If that error is there try this blog entry:

http://www.keirgordon.com/2007/04/bdc-crawl-error-parameter-is-incorrect.html

If that didnt work you can check your default access account has the permission to crawl or not first i don't think so NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE  is the account should be used. try with the account in default content access account on which ur servcies of moss are running.

I did a quick search on technet too and there are 2 other suggestions

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

or

use [e-mail] instead of domain\user when specifying the Default Content Access Account. 
Central Administration --> SSP --> Search Administration | Default Content Access Account.

Failing that let me know i'll log on to our sharepoint server here and see if i can give you a few more suggestions,