In typical medium server farm setup make sure "Windows SharePoint Services Search" service has been started – its set to manual by default or the following error will keep showing up in the logs:
Retry of query machine <SERVER_NAME> has failed with error: The system cannot find the file specified. 0x80070002. It will be retried again in 30 seconds. Component: <GUID>
Retry of query machine <SERVER_NAME> has failed with error: The system cannot find the file specified. 0x80070002. It will be retried again in 30 seconds. Component: <GUID>
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