I've started seeing problems with our Search service on our Large Farm. The Search service is failing because the SharePoint Portal Administration service won't start.

Anyone see this and have any suggestions to fix. I've tried the standard stuff -- service account is good, manually starting the service, rebooting the search server and the index server, central admin/iis is up and running on all 5 servers and sps is serving out content.

I'll take any suggestions -- thx


Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 11/12/2005
Time: 9:48:06 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SEARCH2
Description:
The SharePoint Portal Administration service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
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Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the SharePoint Portal Administration service to connect.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Date: 11/12/2005
Time: 9:48:06 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SEARCH2
Description:
The Microsoft SharePointPS Search service depends on the SharePoint Portal Administration service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp." target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.