Octopus deploy hangs when trying to install TopShelf app - topshelf

I have an service where we use TopShelf. Now I would like to install the service with Octopusdeploy but I can't get it to work. The tentacle seems to hang when I'm trying to start the service. The Deploy.ps1 looks like:
$cmd = "$OctopusPackageDirectoryPath" + "\NameOfExe.exe"
& $cmd "stop"
& $cmd "uninstall"
& $cmd "install"
& $cmd "start"
It works just fine to execut that powershell script in powershell, but the tentacle gets stuck on the last step. I can see in the log that the service is stopped, uninstalled and installed but it hangs on start.
Any recommendations?

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Is it possible to force to kill windows service using Octopus?

My octopus installs Windows Service in a machine, but sometimes it can't stop the service so it doesn't deploy.
If I manually go to the machine and try to stop the service, I can't. But if I first go to Task Manager and kill the process of the service, then I can stop the service.
Does Octopus already have a built-in feature to do this for me? Or should I create a .bat to execute it before reinstalling windows service?
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kill -processname serviceName
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I'm attempting to get my Jboss Server running as a windows service using the JbossService.exe, and I had it working until I uninstalled it (with ./JbossService -uninstall JbossService), and now, while it will install and the service will appear in the windows service list, attempting to start it will only yield the error message:
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