Shared Services - provisioning in progress - does not complete

I was trying to create a new SSP for other site collection on MOSS 2007. The 'Configuration of the shared services' seemed never to complete. In 'Manage this Farm's Shared Services' It says: 'Provisioning in progress' for new SSP. I solved this by starting the Windows Sharepoint Services Timer on second server, it was stopped and I also restarted timer on app server.