Sharepoint 2013 Secure Store will not start. Stuck on "starting"

Question

Since applying the December 2014 CU I have been unable to start my Secure Store Service.  When I try to start the service in Central Admin it just goes to a "starting" state and just stays like that forever.  If I try to access the Service
Application I get this message: Cannot complete this action as the Secure Store Shared Service is not responding. Please contact your administrator
I am not really seeing any errors that I can run down, any ideas what I can do

Answer 1

Hi,
For troubleshooting your issue, you can run the PowerShell Script as below:
add-pssnapin MIcrosoft.SharePoint.Powershell
Function MatchComputerName($computersList, $computerName)
If ($computersList -like "*$computerName*") { Return $true; }
foreach ($v in $computersList) {
If ($v.Contains("*") -or $v.Contains("#")) {
# wildcard processing
foreach ($item in -split $v) {
$item = $item -replace "#", "[\d]"
$item = $item -replace "\*", "[\S]*"
if ($computerName -match $item) {return $true;}
$secureStoreServiceInstances = Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {$_.GetType().Equals([Microsoft.Office.SecureStoreService.Server.SecureStoreServiceInstance])}
$secureStoreServiceInstance = $secureStoreServiceInstances | ? {MatchComputerName $_.Server.Address "Server Name"}
Write-HOst $secureStoreServiceInstance.Status
$secureStoreServiceInstance.Provision()
Reference:
http://georgetowndctechie.blogspot.com/2013/12/fix-secure-store-service-stuck-on.html
Best Regards,
Eric
Eric Tao
TechNet Community Support