windows services and windows 2008

vikramlinux

Hi Friends, I have an application which runs as a service. It works fine with "Local system account" as well as with any specific account. This is for windows 2003. For windows 2008 (32 and 64 bit) my service runs correctly only when it is running with specific user account. But fails in case of "local system account". Also it gives me following error message - "error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in timely fashion". I tried following things - turning off "Data Execution prevention(DEP)" - increased "ServicesPipeTimeout" to 60 seconds but still with "local system account" my service does not start at all. - Vikram S

daniel_zy

Did the the service process start at all (You can check it using process monitor)

Stuart Dootson

I suspect you're trying to do something in your service initialisation that's now disallowed under Windows Server 2008. I would suggest you debug the service initialisation when running under Windows Server 2008 and see what fails? This page[^] may help you.

vikramlinux

Using process monitor I can see the process is created. But when I try to debug using - some "OutputDebugString" code inside main function - or __asm int3; nothing happens. Even if my service is allowed to interact with desktop. - Vikram S

daniel_zy

1. Output debug string does not work from service on 2008 (shared object) 2. Windows probably catch your _asm int 3. 1. Look at the event log. 2. Add log to file.

vikramlinux

I tried logging into the file. but I saw this - process is created - no file logs are generated this file should be created when "main" method of my binary is called.