Error while creating query component

Question

Hi,
I working in a production environment where I have 2 application servers, 2 query servers and 2 crawling servers. I have created the search service application on the application server with the default topology then I modified the topology to add the crawl
components on the crawl servers successfully.
Now I have an issue creating new or modifying the current query components. Every time i try the create new query component I receive the below issue. The query server is having the services "SharePoint Server Search" and "Search Query and
Site Settings Service" running and other services are stopped. 
So, does anyone knows why this issue happens and how to fix it
Errors were encountered during the configuration of the Search Service Application. Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigWizard+SearchConfigWizardException: Topology provisioning failed due to an error.Topology activation was aborted
because of System.ArgumentException: File to copy \\RUH-NDC-KBP-A01\b941e2c4-c227-40d6-9f40-20d25e59b39e-query-0\b941e2c4-c227-40d6-9f40-20d25e59b39e-query-0\Projects\AnchorProject\Indexer\CiFiles\02030001.bsd does not exist on RUH-NDC-KBP-Q01. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CopyFilesJob.Initialize()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CopyFilesJob..ctor(SPService owningService, SPServer serverToRunOn, String name, Guid searchApplicationId, String[] sourcePaths, String[] destinationPaths) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.RequestFileCopy(String
fileCopyName, String serverNameToRunOn, Guid searchAppId, String[] sourcePaths, String[] destinationPaths) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.QueryComponent.RequestRepartitionIndexesFiles(QueryComponent component) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.QueryComponent.CopyRepartitionIndexes(QueryComponent
component) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.QueryComponent.ExecuteCurrentStage(). To retry the activation, run the cmdlet Set-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryTopology -Active. If the error persists, restart the activation by calling the CancelActivate()
method on the query topology object, and then calling Set-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryTopology -Active. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigWizard.WaitForTopologyTimerJobToFinish() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigWizard.UpdateSearchApp()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigWizard.ProvisionSearchServiceApplication() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigurationJobDefinition.ExecuteTimerJob()
2/13/2014 5:04:35 PM 
Regards,
Ehab
Ehab

Answer 1

Are you creating the new topology using Central Administration or PowerShell?
It looks like there is an issue synchronizing the search configuration files in the share.
Jason Warren
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