Any time that I am required to restart Splunk (New App or Update) the restart times out. The only way to resolve this issue is to restart the server where Splunk is installed and manually restart Splunkd and Splunkweb services on the server. Splunkd times out, but will eventually start after about 20-30mins. Is there a better way to restart Splunkd without having to go through this each time?
have you checked the splunkd.log file? What errors or warnings are you seeing?