Unable to start User Profile Sync Service

Question

Hi,
I am currently facing some issues with starting the User Profile Sync Service on my SP2013 farm.. I was wondering if someone could help me out a bit.
I have successfully installed the SP2013 farm on a environment that has access to our AD etc. and I have also
restored the database from SP2007 and converted it to Claims authentication etc. The one thing I can’t get to work is to enable the User Profile Sync Service on the server. I have checked quite a bit of TechNet blogs and other sites and tried almost everything
suggested but it still fails. I’ve also recreated the farm from scratch yesterday again but no luck still
L.
The below is what I have done:
Farm Admin account – spadmin2013 is local admin on all SP Farm servers (2 WFE and 2 APP Servers) and has log on locally rights as well on security policy. On the SQL DB it has dbo permissions on the Sync, Profile and Social DB’s.
Farm Service account – spservice-s is a managed farm account that is used to run the various services of the farm (used during the config wizard part).
From within the Admin Control Panel I have verified the managed accounts and it is indeed spadmin2013 which owns the User Profile Sync Service (not the application itself). When I try to start the service it tries to do that for 5-10 minutes and then fails
and goes back to stop and I do not see any error. I have created a custom service application with new database that runs on spadmin2013/spfarm/ldap accounts etc. I can see from the Windows services – FIM and FIMSync service try to start using the spadmin2013
and then go back to disabled. I have also tried giving the spadmin2013 rights to replicate the AD as few blogs suggested that. I am not sure where this is going wrong or what is missing. I had successfully got this to work and still can get it to work on my
first SP2013 server which is a standalone – running SQL, SP app and WFE on the same box.
In fact I also tried to activate this service first before I joined my 3 other servers to the farm and had no luck. I am kinda lost here as to what is going on! 

Answer 1

Right. i ran a new log as suggested. I have also cleared the config cache and created a Powershell profile as suggested in this link - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bryanbolling/archive/2014/01/02/unable-to-start-user-profile-synchronization-service.aspx
I checked the ULS Logs and i can see the below error -
ILM Configuration: Validating account.
ILM Configuration: Validating the system groups
ILM Configuration: Setting up WMI
ILM Configuration: Setting required permissions
ILM Configuration: Create install config file
ILM Configuration: Update source project
ILM Configuration: Changing service account credentials
ILM Configuration: Setting policy for service account
Updating SPPersistedObject UserProfileApplication Name=User Profile Sync Service. Version: 63903 Ensure: False, HashCode: 55647834, Id: ef1ec55c-aa15-4cb7-a9fe-498382a88b4e, Stack:
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.Update()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.SetupSynchronizationService(ProfileSynchronizationServiceInstance profileSyncInstance)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob.Execute(SPJobState state)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvokeInternal.Invoke(SPJobDefinition jd, Guid targetInstanceId, Boolean isTimerService, Int32& result)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvoke.Invoke(TimerJobExecuteData& data, Int32& result)
SQL connection time: 131.92704 for Data Source=SPSQLAGL;Initial Catalog="Sync DB";Integrated Security=True;Enlist=False;Pooling=True;Min Pool Size=0;Max Pool Size=100;Connect Timeout=15;Application Name="SharePoint[OWSTIMER][1][Sync DB]"
ILM Configuration: Configuring database
ILM Configuration: Error 'ERR_CONFIG_DB'
UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure MIIS post database, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: ERR_CONFIG_DB
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Synchronization.ILMPostSetupConfiguration.ValidateConfigurationResult(UInt32 result)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Synchronization.ILMPostSetupConfiguration.ConfigureMiisStage2()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.SetupSynchronizationService(ProfileSynchronizationServiceInstance profileSyncInstance).
UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: End setup for 'User Profile Sync Service'.
Updating SPPersistedObject ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob Name=ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob. Version: 63899 Ensure: False, HashCode: 36296732, Id: 7aeb377f-8bd1-453d-b6be-6a373eaf350d, Stack:
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPJobDefinition.Update()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob.Execute(SPJobState state)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvokeInternal.Invoke(SPJobDefinition jd, Guid targetInstanceId, Boolean isTimerService, Int32& result)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvoke.Invoke(TimerJobExecuteData& data, Int32& result)
Leaving Monitored Scope (Timer Job ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob). Execution Time=6041.65717333333
Name=Timer Job User Profile Sync Service_ProfileSynchronizationJob
Updating SPPersistedObject ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob Name=ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob. Version: -1 Ensure: False, HashCode: 13918585, Id: 21e01df1-8772-487d-bd56-f699b3912bda, Stack:
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPJobDefinition.Update()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.StartSynchronizationServiceSetupTimer(String strSyncMachineAddress)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ILMProfileSynchronizationJob.Execute()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplicationJob.Execute(SPJobState jobState)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvokeInternal.Invoke(SPJobDefinition jd, Guid targetInstanceId, Boolean isTimerService, Int32& result)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvoke.Invoke(TimerJobExecuteData& data, Int32& result)
Updating SPPersistedObject ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob Name=ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob. Version: 63913 Ensure: False, HashCode: 13918585, Id: 21e01df1-8772-487d-bd56-f699b3912bda, Stack:
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPJobDefinition.Update()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.StartSynchronizationServiceSetupTimer(String strSyncMachineAddress)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ILMProfileSynchronizationJob.Execute()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplicationJob.Execute(SPJobState jobState)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvokeInternal.Invoke(SPJobDefinition jd, Guid targetInstanceId, Boolean isTimerService, Int32& result)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvoke.Invoke(TimerJobExecuteData& data, Int32& result)
I have verified the spadmin2013 does have dbo permissions and also is part of security & sysadmin in sql server. I run SQL 2012 with SP1