Service created with Wise Express times-out on start
Updated: 31 Aug 2010 | 2 comments
Every service I create with Wise installation Express starts then stops with an "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start control or request in a timely fashion."
As a test, I built a simpler msi that only installs a service that starts calc.exe. The service does start, and the calculator runs but then the service stops immediately throwing the timeout error.
I tested this on multiple computers with differing Operating systems(XP, Win 7) with the same result.
Surely there is a simple flag or setting that I am missing.
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1. How are you defining the service? If you can take us through the steps you are using to create your "simpler" MSI then perhaps we can spot what is wrong. Or you can attach your simpler MSI to your original posting as a ZIPPED file.
2. Are you setting the service to run in system context or as a specific user?
3. Have you looked at the service parameters using the MMC to see how it has been set up?
4. Have you tried creating the same service manually, and checked that this works OK?
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Service timeout issue post update
Attached to the original post is an example test MSI I created to start the actual exe I want to run as a service
I set the service to run in the system context. Ultimately i plan to run this at boot automatically but for testing I have it set to run manual
In services.msc it is set up just as I defined it and looks OK
The only way I am currently capable of creating a service manually is to use the srvany process from the Windows Server toolkit. I have used this method and my executable runs fine.
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