I am running SharePoint 2010 on a single server set-up. (enterprise I believe).
I thought I had search set-up properly, but I cannot get to the search results page. It just throws an internal error, and I am not sure why.
I am getting the following from the correlation id in the log:
CoreResultsWebPart::OnInit: Exception initializing:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance
of an object. at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader()
at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs
e)Internal server error exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object
reference not set to an instance of an object. at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader()
at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs
e) System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an
instance of an object. at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader()
at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs
e)Watson bucket parameters: SharePoint Server 2010, ULSException14,
06175311 "sharepoint server search", 0e00178d "14.0.6029.0", 17853a8f
"microsoft.office.server.search", 0e0017da "14.0.6106.0", 4def6b97
"wed jun 08 08:31:19 2011", 00003297 "00003297", 0000002d "0000002d",
4a6d3421 "nullreferenceexception", 67316a39 "g1j9"
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I am available for more information.
Best Answer
It turns out that the account that was used to create the search application (one specifically created for search) did not have enough permissions to actually access the search database.
I re-created the search application service, with an account of higher privileges, and that worked.