Service fails to stop

[Jo Segers]

Hi,

When I try to stop an FTP-server service it fails to stop. It remains in
the state: 'stopping' and all options are grayed out. How can I stop
this service without restarting the computer?

Thanks in advance,

Jo Segers.

 

[Guest]

Jo,

I had the same issue with a service and I found answer from a previous
posting by 'Laura E Hunter' -

Killing a WIndows Service that Hangs on Stopping:

http://blogs.bartdesmet.net/bart/archive/2004/10/16/438.aspx

Basically you'll use the "sc" and "kill" resource kit utilities to find the
Process ID of the service, and then forcibly end it.

*****************
Laura E. Hunter - MVP

You can download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit tools @
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

[Use kill instead of 'taskkill' as the article suggests - Eg: Kill <PID>]

-Binoy

 

[Mark R. Blain]

When I try to stop an FTP-server service it fails to stop. It remains in
the state: 'stopping' and all options are grayed out. How can I stop
this service without restarting the computer?

My weapons of choice are Task Manager, psservice and pskill from
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

 

[Jo Segers]

Basically you'll use the "sc" and "kill" resource kit utilities to find the
Process ID of the service, and then forcibly end it.

Hi Binoy,

I can find the service with sc but cannot kill it.

Error message:

Unable to terminate process.
The operation could not be completed.
Access denied.

However, I am loged in via terminal services. Maybe that is the problem.
I will let you know if I find a sollution.

Yours sincerely,

Jo.

 

[Jo Segers]

Thanks Mark,

The internalsys-tools worked.

 

[Jo Segers]

I used pskill from internalsys. It worked perfectly.

Thanks for your help.