.NET Service will NOT Start

[kerickson]

I have a service application I wrote in vb.net. it has
run perfectly on multiple servers, but I now have to run
the service from a new server and it will not start. I
get "Error 1053: The service did not respond to .. in a
timely fashion." I've uninstalled/reinstalled the
service repeatedly - no change. What could be causing
this????? Thanks in advance.

 

[LiquidJ]

Usually this means that you're not calling SetServiceStatus() correctly in
your control handler. The SCM waits for your service to set its status to
SERVICE_RUNNING, and if, after a period of time, it doesn't, you get this
message.

The reason why it works on some machines but not others is sort of a mystery
since you didn't provide any information about them. My guess is that for
some reason, some or your servers have a version of the SCM which is more
lenient than the others...OS differences?


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