I have created a windows service.
When I install msi, this service goes to local services, but doesn't start. When i try to start it, it gives this error:
Windows could not start this service on Local computer.
Error 1053: The service didnot respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
One more thing is, that when I install msi as a service, it goes to local services, but doesn't start and gives warning that you don't have privileges to start this service.
Once you have created the service, go to "Services", and find the service you just created.
Right click on the service name, and select Properties. Under Log On, make sure the service is using an account that has permissions to the machine and anything your service needs. The default account is a Local System account, which has access to the following .
Microsoft has a couple of fixes to this problem here and here. They might help you.
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I have created a windows service with Automatic Start Type and install it in my system successfully but it does not start until i restart my system.
Details: yesterday i have create and install my service and then restart my windows so the service started successfully. but the problem occurred today when i boot my windows and opened the services list of windows from Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services and selected my service i saw that it did not start automatically.
what is my mistake?
Assuming the service is set to 'Automatic' as the startup mode, and that it's state is not 'Started', then there will be at least one message about why the service did not start in the System Event Log.
Typical reasons are that the service didn't start quickly enough (Service Controller imposes a time limit on how quickly services must respond to the 'Start' message) or that the service depended on another service which wasn't yet available (check your service dependencies) or that your service simply failed due to a software error (e.g. some resource it needs could not be found).
Find the error in the event log, and you'll have a much better idea of why your service hasn't started.
As your service was running fine yesterday but not today. Checking all its dependencies would be my first suggestion.
In your Start-> Run, type services.msc . It's a shortcut to open the services console.
Then Right click on your service , if it is listed there, click on Properties on this popup menu.
Open the Dependency tab (4th tab) , check if your service depends on some other service and that dependency is running.
Regards,
bhupendra
Example:
SC.exe config "ServiceName" start= auto
I have a service that logs in as a specific user. The service works great when the user logs in, but won't start until they do so. Is there some kind of a setting I am missing?
This is running on a Windows 7 Ultimate box.
The user is an administrator of the box and the service is set to automatically start.
No errors are in the application log, and the service runs like a champ once the user logs in (without having them start it).
Does the user have privileges to start Windows Services (the user policy)? You can try using ntrights.exe to make sure that he does. Also, can you start the service from Services.msc when logged in another account?
I think this is a privileges problem. Either the service login information is incorrect or the user cannot start services.
This was a fun one, but I figured it out this morning.
The issue is that the server was a clean Windows 7 Ultimate install. That means the power management functionality was set to default which causes the machine to power down after 30 minutes, hence the service would stop running. Fixed the power management settings to never sleep and running like a champ.
Thanks for the input folks.
I have a Windows service written using Topshelf. I'm trying to configure it to run using a Windows account with restricted privileges rather than using LocalSystem. That's also necessary as I'd like to connect to a database using integrated authentication.
The service works when run as LocalSystem (albeit with a database connection string containing credentials) and running the console application as my limited account (using runas) also works.
However, when I try to start the service the service control manager times out waiting for a response:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
I also get the following in the Application Popup event log:
Application Error : The exception unknown software exception (0xc06d007e) occurred in the application at location 0x77e4bef7.
The first thing that the application does is writes to a log file but it doesn't reach that when I start the service. The logging works if I run via the console.
Any suggestions what I might be missing or what I might try next?
This problem seems to be related to the server (a domain controller) rather than TopShelf. A service built with the .NET service component also exhibits the same behaviour.
The service runs successfully on a different machine (in the same domain).
Unfortunately this doesn't help diagnose the problem but gives me an acceptable workaround.
Check the MSDN article Debugging windows services which describes how you debug windows services.
I've just started seeing this on a few of my services written in .net 2.0. They'll start fine when the server boots, but if I were to restart them throughout the day, they would not start, and give this error message.
They currently ran under a domain account which has admin rights on the box, but for kicks, I switched it to Local System, and the service started normally. I stopped it, changed it back to the domain account (reentering the password), and it started normally again as expected.
Don't know if this counts as a 'fix' so much, but that's what worked for me.
I've a website that puts info into a mySQL database and a windows service (written in VB.Net) that polls the db and actions what's in there.
However, occasionally it stalls and rather than having to RDP into the server, I want superusers to click on a button to restart the service.
I can get the button to say, do a directory listing of c:\ output to a test file so the whole 'getting a command to execute on a remote server' issue works. However, I can't restart services.
I assume this is a security thing (although it has full rights to c:\ I thought I'd sussed that already).
The website runs under the normal IUSR_user so am I doing something really stupid or can someone explain how to get the service to be restarted ?
Many thanks
Adrian
I think a significantly bigger problem is that you have a service that's stalling. Do you have any logs or errors that the service outputs to that you could use to diagnose why it's stalling?
I'd write a service that restarts selected services and call that from my website, just for fun!
It seems that you need to give the user permissions on the specific service. The simplest way to do this (in my view) is to use subinacl.exe from the Windows Resource Kit.
subinacl.exe /service MySQL /Grant=IUSR_user
I'm would be very careful when doing this on a public-facing web server. Have both authentication and rate limiting on the restarting code.
Use the ServiceController class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.servicecontroller.aspx
This should allow you to connect to the named service and stop/start it.
EDIT:
In addition, you probably need to have your web app impersonate a user with rights to restart the service. This can be accomplished via an identity impersonate in the web.config, or running the web app in a configured application pool in IIS. Keep in mind that the web app will have to run on the same box as the service is running on.
I am using a service controller in a win forms application to start and stop a service which listens to a message queue and processes the messages. I get an access denied error when the service is started from the win forms application.I am using Vista Home Basic and an account which is of type administrator and I have used Log As - Local System Account. The service can be started and stopped normally using the Service Management Console but I get an error when I try to Start the service programatically.Can someone provide some guidance as to how to fix this issue.
Probably you have elevated when opening the services console, but not for your own app.
Add an "Application Manifest File" (that is the name of the template in Visual Studio) and set the requested execution level to "requireAdministrator" (there are comments in the manifest file that will help).