SharePoint Secrets

One day you decide you feel like searching your SharePoint 2007 site for some content and you come across the following errors: On the site page: The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. In the event log: Event Type: Error Event Source: Office Server Search Event Category: Content index server Event ID: 4127 Date: 08/01/2009 Time: 20:41:13 User: N/A Computer: SERVER01 Description: Content index on Portal_Content could not be initialized. Error The content index is corrupt. 0xc0041800.Component: 1a42c22a-da49-4651-80ab-99f19176ac8a For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. ---- Event Type: Warning Event Source: Office Server Search Event Category: Search service Event ID: 10039 Date: 08/01/2009 Time: 20:43:42 User: N/A Computer: SERVER01 Description: Retry of query machine ‘SERVER01′ has failed with error: The object is not initialzed. 0×8004180b. It will be retried again in 900 seconds. ...