Could not load the current My Site settings

I have a new SP2013 installation and going into the Setup My Sites, I get the error:

Could not load the current My Site settings

Doing a quick search, I came across this:

Could not load the current My Site settings. on Setup My Sites

It turned out that my Search Service Application was broken as described here:

Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running

Once I got that fixed, everything was fine again.