we were noticing behavior when we would stop locator services and rebuild said locators.
after we have rebuilt the locators and put the data in the appropriate folder locations and try to start the service back up, the service never fully comes back.
i've watched the esri logs while the process works...
1) service stopped
2) data copied over and locators rebuilt
3) service started
i can see in the esri logs that it believes the service has come back online but when i log into the admin site the configuration status is still on "stopped". so it seems to be a disconnect between what is actually happening and what the service thinks has happened.
has anyone else experienced this?
i know some have suggested the truncate and append approach. we have been working our process for almost 3 years now without an issue, now we try to upgrade to 10.4.1 and we saw this behavior. NOW, we were are also seeing this in 10.5!