Sitecore Site/Item Publishing hangs at Initializing

Question

We had a problem with core database, that had been restored by the previous day\'s backup database.

After that the site is working fine but, we are having problem with p

Answer 1

An explanation is provided here:

https://sitecorebasics.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/timeout-error-when-running-cleanupdatabases-job/

You need to increase the DefaultSQLTimeout setting in the Sitecore config. Try setting it to 30 minutes.

<setting name=”DataProviderTimeout” value=”00:30:00″ />

Also answered here:

https://sitecorebasics.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/timeout-error-when-running-cleanupdatabases-job/

Answer 2

I tried a lot of things and the only one that worked was to synchronize the time between the web server and the database server.

You can do it either updating the time in both servers or using Internet Time tab.

After that, it worked fine.

This worked using Sitecore 6.6.