Sharepoint 2013 Problem - User Personal site never created. Clicking Skydrive/Newsfeed/or Follow

Question

New 2013 setup.  I created 1 test site.   I'm able to load the site, but If the user clicks on 'Follow', 'Skydrive', or 'Newsfeeds', the user is taken to the personal page that reads:
We're almost ready!
While we set things up, feel free to changeyour
photo, adjustyour
personal settings, and fill
ininformation about yourself.
It could take us a while, but once we're done, here's what you'll get:
Newsfeedis your social hub where you'll see updates from the people, documents, sites, and tags you're following, with quick access to the apps you've added.
SkyDrive Prois your personal hard drive in the cloud, the place you can store, share, and sync your work files.
Sitesgives you easy access to the places you'll want to go.
There seems to be some sort of user init that never completes. 
In the log files taken from "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions" I found the following related to an attempt 
12/05/2012 16:02:26.55     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal
Server          User Profiles                     ajxt4    Unexpected    Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.GetFeedFor:
Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException: WarningPersonalSiteNotFoundCanCreateError :  : Correlation ID:d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449 : Date and Time : 12/5/2012 1:02:26 PM     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.SPMicrofeedManager.CommonPubFeedGetter(SPMicrofeedRetrievalOptions
feedOptions, MicrofeedPublishedFeedType feedType, Boolean publicView)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.SPMicrofeedManager.GetPublishedFeed(String feedOwner, SPMicrofeedRetrievalOptions feedOptions, MicrofeedPublishedFeedType typeOfPubFeed)    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.ISocialFeedManagerProxy.ProxyGetFeedFor(String actorId, SPSocialFeedOptions options)     at Microsof...    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.55*    w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajxt4    Unexpected    ...t.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.<>c__DisplayClass4b`1.<S2SInvoke>b__4a()    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.55     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajxt4    Unexpected    Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.GetFeedFor:
Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialException: No personal site exists for the current user, and a previous attempt to create one failed. Internal type name: Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 80.    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.TryTranslateExceptionAndThrow(Exception exception)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.<>c__DisplayClass48`1.<S2SInvoke>b__47()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name,
Func`1 func)    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.55     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajxt4    Unexpected    Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.GetFeedFor:
Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialException: No personal site exists for the current user, and a previous attempt to create one failed. Internal type name: Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 80.    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.TryTranslateExceptionAndThrow(Exception exception)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.<>c__DisplayClass48`1.<S2SInvoke>b__47()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name,
Func`1 func)     at Mic...    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.55*    w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajxt4    Unexpected    ...rosoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.<>c__DisplayClass2f.<GetFeedFor>b__2d()    
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.57     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        nasq    Medium      Entering monitored scope (Render
Ribbon.). Parent SharePointForm Control Render    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.58     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        b4ly    Medium      Leaving Monitored Scope (Render
Ribbon.). Execution Time=3.16897818018771    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.58     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Server Search    
     Query                             dn4s    High        FetchDataFromURL
start at(outside if): 1 param: start    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.58     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     aiokq    High        User profile property 'EduUserRole'
not found from from MySitePersonalSiteUpgradeOnNavigationWebPart::GetUserRoleFromProfile(). This should indicate that the current user is not an edudation user. [SPWeb Url=http://share2/my/Person.aspx?accountname=mycompany\username]    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.58     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Portal Server    
     Personal Site Instantiation       af1lc    High        Skipping creation of personal site from MySitePersonalSiteUpgradeOnNavigationWebPart::CreatePersonalSite()
because one or more of the creation criteria has not been met. [SPWeb Url=http://share2/my/Person.aspx?accountname=mycompany\username]  http://share2/my/Person.aspx?accountname=mycompany\username]Self-Service Site Creation == False  Can Create Personal
Site == True  Is user licensed == True  Storage&Social UPA Permission == True  Site or Page or Web Part is in design mode == False      d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:26.59     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x2324    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        b4ly    Medium      Leaving Monitored Scope (Request
(GET:http://share2:80/my/Person.aspx?accountname=mycompany%5Cusername&AjaxDelta=1)). Execution Time=94.5348500996635    d4f0e79b-2e8c-9054-08c5-674e84005449
12/05/2012 16:02:27.17     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x23A0    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        nasq    Medium      Entering monitored scope (Request
(POST:http://share2:80/my/_vti_bin/client.svc/ProcessQuery)). Parent No    
12/05/2012 16:02:27.17     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x23A0    SharePoint Foundation       
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Request (POST:http://share2:80/my/_vti_bin/client.svc/ProcessQuery)    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.17     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x23A0    SharePoint Foundation       
     Authentication Authorization      agb9s    Medium      Non-OAuth request. IsAuthenticated=True, UserIdentityName=0#.w|mycompany\username, ClaimsCount=57    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.17     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Foundation       
     CSOM                              agw10    Medium      Begin
CSOM Request ManagedThreadId=54, NativeThreadId=2504    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.18     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Foundation       
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Site=/my    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.18     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     Microfeeds                        aizmk    High        serviceHost_RequestExecuting  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.20     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajk39    Medium      UserProfileDBCache_WCFLogging::Begin ProfileDBCacheServiceClient.GetUserData.ExecuteOnChannel  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.20     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajk35    Medium      MossClientBase_WCFLogging::Begin MossClientBase.ExecuteOnChannel  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.20     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajk36    Medium      MossClientBase_WCFLogging:: MossClientBase.ExecuteOnChannel
-  Executing codeblock on channel    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.21     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Foundation       
     Topology                          e5mc    Medium      WcfSendRequest: RemoteAddress:
'http://share2:32843/1c9a1642f4d9456c94ae0dbbd9b25a41/ProfileDBCacheService.svc' Channel: 'Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.IProfileDBCacheService' Action: 'http://Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles/GetUserData' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:24af6007-0615-428e-ad0a-1265f47f0b33'  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.22     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1BA0    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        nasq    Medium      Entering monitored scope (ExecuteWcfServerOperation).
Parent No    
12/05/2012 16:02:27.22     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1BA0    SharePoint Foundation       
     Topology                          e5mb    Medium      WcfReceiveRequest: LocalAddress:
'http://share2.mycompany.com:32843/1c9a1642f4d9456c94ae0dbbd9b25a41/ProfileDBCacheService.svc' Channel: 'System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel' Action: 'http://Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles/GetUserData' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:24af6007-0615-428e-ad0a-1265f47f0b33'  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.22     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1BA0    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        b4ly    Medium      Leaving Monitored Scope (ExecuteWcfServerOperation).
Execution Time=0.647079447248184    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.22     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajk37    Medium      MossClientBase_WCFLogging:: MossClientBase.ExecuteOnChannel
-  Executed codeblock on channel    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.22     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajk4a    Medium      UserProfileDBCache_WCFLogging::End ProfileDBCacheServiceClient.GetUserData.ExecuteOnChannel  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.22     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ajp2i    Medium      GetMySiteLinks: user has a profile but no personal
site; not returning personal site links    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.23     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Portal Server    
     Microfeeds                        aizmj    High        serviceHost_RequestExecuted  
 d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.23     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x09C8    SharePoint Foundation       
     CSOM                              agw11    Medium      End
CSOM Request. Duration=53 milliseconds.    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.23     w3wp.exe (0x1AB0)                           0x1604    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        b4ly    Medium      Leaving Monitored Scope (Request
(POST:http://share2:80/my/_vti_bin/client.svc/ProcessQuery)). Execution Time=62.5798809625246    d4f0e79b-3eb6-9054-08c5-61e70b316688
12/05/2012 16:02:27.44     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1178    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformOngoingRequestDepartures    6b6b4445-152d-0002-8ef6-85991723bb2d
12/05/2012 16:02:27.51     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1934    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: Disk Manager.PerformCleanup    11c5f189-7512-0002-bee0-df766138e919
12/05/2012 16:02:27.51     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1934    Excel Services Application  
     Excel Calculation Services        8jg2    Medium      ResourceManager.PerformCleanup: Disk Manager: CurrentSize=57369.    11c5f189-7512-0002-bee0-df766138e919
12/05/2012 16:02:28.45     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1178    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformOngoingRequestDepartures    6b6b4445-152d-0002-8ef6-85991723bb2d
12/05/2012 16:02:28.92     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x18C8    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformSessionTimeouts    8854a25e-6740-0002-b513-28f8778da25e
12/05/2012 16:02:28.92     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x23E0    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: Memory Manager.PerformCleanup    53fed7f1-2e29-0002-a910-5150db6281e2
12/05/2012 16:02:28.92     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x23E0    Excel Services Application  
     Excel Calculation Services        8jg2    Medium      ResourceManager.PerformCleanup: Memory Manager: CurrentSize=730533888.    53fed7f1-2e29-0002-a910-5150db6281e2
12/05/2012 16:02:29.40     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x19B4    SharePoint Portal Server    
     User Profiles                     ahqt1    Medium      UserProfileDBCache.GetChangedDBItemsPrimaryKeys:
m_AllPropertyIDs = 1;3;9;2;5009;7;23;13;14;22;5065;5061;5062;5040;5042;5091;5092;5093;    19a3e79b-2ee3-9054-08c5-6a281115d989
12/05/2012 16:02:29.45     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1178    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformOngoingRequestDepartures    6b6b4445-152d-0002-8ef6-85991723bb2d
12/05/2012 16:02:29.54     OWSTIMER.EXE (0x26C4)                       0x1964    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        aeh57    Medium      Sql Ring buffer status eventsPerSec
= 0,processingTime=0,totalEventsProcessed=0,eventCount=0,droppedCount=0,memoryUsed=0    
12/05/2012 16:02:30.10     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x0FAC    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: HealthPerfCounter    633d7a5d-1310-0002-8342-391ed51888b4
12/05/2012 16:02:30.45     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1178    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformOngoingRequestDepartures    6b6b4445-152d-0002-8ef6-85991723bb2d
12/05/2012 16:02:30.61     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x19A4    SharePoint Server Search    
     Query                             ac3iq    High        Ims::EndPoints:
old: net.tcp://share2/C5A0AC/QueryProcessingComponent1/ImsQueryInternal;, new: net.tcp://share2/C5A0AC/QueryProcessingComponent1/ImsQueryInternal;    19a3e79b-2ee3-9054-08c5-6a281115d989
12/05/2012 16:02:30.67     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1EE4    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: RequestManager.RequestTimeoutCleanup    5baea2ed-01b0-0002-9183-bc6ae11d23eb
12/05/2012 16:02:30.67     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1EE4    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: ExcelServerThreadPool.QueueConsiderate    5baea2ed-01b0-0002-9183-bc6ae11d23eb
12/05/2012 16:02:30.67     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1EE4    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformAutoSave    5baea2ed-01b0-0002-9183-bc6ae11d23eb
12/05/2012 16:02:31.45     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1178    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformOngoingRequestDepartures    6b6b4445-152d-0002-8ef6-85991723bb2d
12/05/2012 16:02:32.45     w3wp.exe (0x1B78)                           0x1178    SharePoint Server           
     Logging Correlation Data          xmnv    Medium      Name=Task: SessionManager.PerformOngoingRequestDepartures    6b6b4445-152d-0002-8ef6-85991723bb2d
12/05/2012 16:02:32.65     OWSTIMER.EXE (0x26C4)                       0x197C    SharePoint Foundation       
     Monitoring                        nasq    Medium      Entering monitored scope (Timer
Job EducationBulkOperationJob). Parent No    9d183f64-33f3-4bb8-83b3-f401e3150f7e
Any thoughts on this?   troubleshooting tips? 

Answer 1

In my case, here is what happened and how I fixed it.
Situation:
Mysite is a new web application. We have two one-way trusts in place since the domain of the farm is different than the two other domains where users reside. So I ran the 
STSADM.exe -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv "Forest1,Domain1\account,password;
Forest2,Domain2\account,password"
-url https://mysitesURL
This allowed the user policy of the new Mysites web application to search through the two domains where AD users reside. Once I added them I was good, no more errors. 
One thing to note, I have two web apps using the same wildcard cert and running off port 443 SSL. 
I wanted to make the user picture come from AD so I changed that user property (Picture) in User Profile Service options, and this seems to have broken initial MySite creation, but once the user adds a picture
to their profile settings, the site starts working. I need to remove the property I added for "Picture" in user profile properties.
This is the process I took that caused my problem:
http://richardstk.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/import-user-photos-from-active-directory-into-sharepoint-2013/