Running into a problem repeatedly with our ArcGIS Server installation where all services are in a perpetual state of "Stopping…" whenever we do an upgrade (just upgraded from 10.2 to 10.2.1). The same thing occurred when we changed the ArcGIS Server account from a local account to a domain account. The services cannot be stopped and started manually. Restarting the ArcGIS Server service does not seem to help either. Rebooting the server that ArcGIS Server is running on does not help with this issue either.
[GIS] Why are ArcGIS 10.2.1 for Server services stuck in perpetual Stopping… state
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Best Answer
This is probably a bug in the arcgis server manager, re publishing your services will solve it. While stopping the service manually look at the logs in your Server Manager to see what is the message.
You can also stop the services manually from the admin api here yourserver:6080/arcgis/admin Then select services and execute stop.
One best practice also is to set your arcgis server service to delayed automatic start giving the OS time to initialize networking services and processes.