I have created and installed a service a couple of times. Initially it was working fine, but after some changes in the service Code it start giving the error when I restart the service in Services.msc :
Error 1053: the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion
Code:
public partial class AutoSMS : ServiceBase
{
public AutoSMS()
{
InitializeComponent();
eventLog1.Clear();
if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("MySource"))
{
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(
"MySource", "MyNewLog");
}
eventLog1.Source = "MySource";
eventLog1.Log = "MyNewLog";
Timer checkForTime = new Timer(5000);
checkForTime.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(checkForTime_Elapsed);
checkForTime.Enabled = true;
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
eventLog1.WriteEntry("In OnStart");
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
eventLog1.WriteEntry("In onStop.");
}
void checkForTime_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
string Time = "15:05:00";
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(Time, "HH:mm:ss",
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
if (DateTime.Now == dateTime) ;
eventLog1.WriteEntry(Time);
}
}
Here is my main method code
static void Main()
{
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new AutoSMS()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
}
I also tried the following steps :
I used to install and uninstall it with following command :
installutil AutoSMS.exe
installutil /u AutoSMS.exe
This question is related to
c#
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After spending too much time on this issue. I found the EventLog
cause all that mess although I used it properly.
Whoever tackle this issue, I would suggest you to get rid of the EventLog
.
Use better tools like "log4net".
I had this problem and it drove me nuts for two days… If your problem similar to mine:
I have settings “User settings” in my windows service, so the service can do self-maintenance, without stopping and starting the service. Well, the problem is with the “user settings”, where the config file for these settings is saved in a folder under the user-profile of the user who is running the windows service under the service-exe file version.
This folder for some reason was corrupted. I deleted the folder and service start working back again happily as usual…
Both Local System Account and Local Service would not work for me, i then set it to Network Service and this worked fine.
I encountered the same issue and was not at all sure how to resolve it. Yes this occurs because an exception is being thrown from the service, but there are a few general guidelines that you can follow to correct this:
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new WinsowsServiceToRun()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
You need to ensure that there is some kind of infinite loop running in the class WinsowsServiceToRun
Finally, there may be some code which is not logging anything and closing the program abruptly (which was the case with me), in this case you will have to follow the old school of debugging which needed to write a line to a source (text/db/wherever). What I faced was that since the account running the service was not "Admin", the code was just falling off and not logging any exceptions in case it was trying to write to "Windows Event Log" even though the code was there to log exceptions. Admin privilege is actually not needed for logging to Even Log but it is needed to define the source. In case source of the event is not already defined in the system and the service tries to log it for the first time without admin privilege it fails. To solve this follow below steps:
eventcreate /ID 1 /L APPLICATION /T INFORMATION /SO <<Source>> /D "<<SourceUsingWhichToWrite>>"
I faced this problem because of a missing framework on the box running my service. The box had .NET 4.0 and the service was written on top of .NET 4.5.
I installed the following download on the box, restarted, and the service started up fine: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653
I had this problem, it took about a day to fix. For me the problem was that my code skipped the "main content" and effectively ran a couple of lines then finished. And this caused the error for me. It is a C# console application which installs a Windows Service, as soon as it tried to run it with the ServiceController (sc.Run() ) then it would give this error for me.
After I fixed the code to go to the main content, it would run the intended code:
ServiceBase.Run(new ServiceHost());
Then it stopped showing up.
As lots of people have already said, the error could be anything, and the solutions people provide may or may not solve it. If they don't solve it (like the Release instead of Debug, adding generatePublisherEvidence=false into your config, etc), then chances are that the problem is with your own code.
Try and get your code to run without using sc.Run() (i.e. make the code run that sc.Run() would have executed).
My issue was the one with appsettings.json
not copying to release build folder during build and simple putting it into the ...\bin\Release
folder and copying launchSettings.json
content to appsettings.json
solved the problem for me.
Check ConnectionStrings
if you are using EntityFramework
or any other means to initiate database connections at the service startup.
In my case when i got the error Error 1053 the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion
this is what was going wrong:
I was using EntityFramework and had the connection strings wrong. So basically at startup the EntityFramework failed to connect to the database using the incorrect Connection String and timed out.
Just had to replace the database connection string with the correct one and it worked fine.
Did not need any framework update or any other system/configuration change at all.
I was getting exactly same issue, All I have done is to to change the Debug mode to Release while compiling the dll. This has solved my probelm, how/why? I dont know I have already asked a question on SO
This worked for me. Basically make sure the Log on user is set to the right one. However it depends how the account infrastructure is set. In my example it's using AD account user credentials.
In start up menu search box search for 'Services' -In Services find the required service -right click on and select the Log On tab -Select 'This account' and enter the required content/credentials -Ok it and start the service as usual
Install the debug build of the service and attach the debugger to the service to see what's happening.
As others have pointed out, this error can have a multitude of causes. But in the hopes that this will help somebody out, I'll share what happened in our case. For us, our service had been upgraded to .NET 4.5, but the server did not have .NET 4.5 installed.
I want to echo mdb's comments here. Don't go this path. Your service is not supposed to have a UI... "No user interaction" is like the definining feature of a service.
If you need to configure your service, write another application that edits the same configuration that the service reads on startup. But make it a distinct tool -- when you want to start the service, you start the service. When you want to configure it, you run the configuration tool.
Now, if you need realtime monitoring of the service, then that's a little trickier (and certainly something I've wished for with services). Now you're talking about having to use interprocess communications and other headaches.
Worst of all, if you need user interaction, then you have a real disconnect here, because services don't interact with the user.
In your shoes I would step back and ask why does this need to be a service? And why does it need user interaction?
These two requirements are pretty incompatible, and that should raise alarms.
I had two services running who were accidentally coupled to the same EventSource eventLog.Source = "MySource";
After uninstalling both services, and reinstalling the one that suffered from error 1053, my service started up normally.
If you continue down the road of trying to make your service interact with the user's desktop directly, you'll lose: even under the best of circumstances (i.e. "before Vista"), this is extremely tricky.
Windows internally manages several window stations, each with their own desktop. The window station assigned to services running under a given account is completely different from the window station of the logged-on interactive user. Cross-window station access has always been frowned upon, as it's a security risk, but whereas previous Windows versions allowed some exceptions, these have been mostly eliminated in Vista and later operating systems.
The most likely reason your service is hanging on startup, is because it's trying to interact with a nonexistent desktop (or assumes Explorer is running inside the system user session, which also isn't the case), or waiting for input from an invisible desktop.
The only reliable fix for these issues is to eliminate all UI code from your service, and move it to a separate executable that runs inside the interactive user session (the executable can be started using the global Startup group, for example).
Communication between your UI code and your service can be implemented using any RPC mechanism: Named Pipes work particularly well for this purpose. If your communications needs are minimal, using application-defined Service Control Manager commands might also do the trick.
It will take some effort to achieve this separation between UI and service code: however, it's the only way to make things work reliably, and will serve you well in the future.
ADDENDUM, April 2010: Since this question remains pretty popular, here's a way to fix another common scenario that causes "service did not respond..." errors, involving .NET services that don't attempt any funny stuff like interacting with the desktop, but do use Authenticode signed assemblies: disable the verification of the Authenticode signature at load time in order to create Publisher evidence, by adding the following elements to your .exe.config file:
<configuration>
<runtime>
<generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/>
</runtime>
</configuration>
Publisher evidence is a little-used Code Access Security (CAS) feature: only in the unlikely event that your service actually relies on the PublisherMembershipCondition will disabling it cause issues. In all other cases, it will make the permanent or intermittent startup failures go away, by no longer requiring the runtime to do expensive certificate checks (including revocation list lookups).
In my case, I was publishing service while it was in debug mode.
Solution was:
InstallUtil -u WindowsServiceName.exe
InstallUtil -i WindowsServiceName.exe
It worked perfectly after.
Install the .net framework 4.5! It worked for me.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57768
After spending some time on the issue, trying solutions that didn't work, I run into this blog. It suggests to wrap the service initialization code in a try/catch block, like this, and adding EventLog
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ServiceProcess;
namespace WindowsService
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
try
{
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new Service1()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
EventLog.WriteEntry("Application", ex.ToString(), EventLogEntryType.Error);
}
}
}
}
Then, uninstall the old service, redeploy the service with these modifications. Start the service and check out the Event Viewer/Application logs. You'll see what the real problem is, which is the underlying reason for the timeout.
This worked for me. Basically make sure the Log on user is set to the right one. However it depends how the account infrastructure is set. In my example it's using AD account user credentials.
In start up menu search box search for 'Services' -In Services find the required service -right click on and select the Log On tab -Select 'This account' and enter the required content/credentials -Ok it and start the service as usual
One of possible solutions for this problem [It fixed issue at my end and my application is JAVA based application ]:
1) check your application is pointing to correct java version(check the java version and path in your application).
OR
2)check the configured java version i.e check whether it is 32-bit version or 64-bit version(based on your application). if you are using 32-bit then you should use 32-bit version JSL, else JSL will cause this issue.
I scratched my head to clear this error This error might be caused if you are debugging it in the code like
static void Main()
{
#if DEBUG
MailService service = new MailService();
service.Ondebug();
#else
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new MailService()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
#endif
}
}
After clearing the if,else
and endif
in the code like this the error has not appeared again....hope it helps....
static void Main()
{
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new MailService()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
}
I had the same issue. Seems like when starting the service the main thread shouldnt be the main worker thread. By simply creating a new thread and handing the main work to that thread solved my issue.
In my case the problem was missing version of .net framework
.
My service used
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
</startup>
But .net Framework
version of server was 4, so by changing 4.5 to 4 the problem fixed:
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0" />
</startup>
In my experience, I had to stop my existing service to update code. after updating the code and while START the Service I got the same error "Error 1053 the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion".
But this got resolve after RESTARTING THE MACHINE.
At lease this works for me.
open the services window as administrator,Then try to start the service.That worked for me.
Also, you need to check your configuration file content.
You need to check below the section.
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2"/>
</startup>
Coz above section need to match with yours .net framework.
Check if the service starting code is correct,
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new WinsowsServiceToRun()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
Also, remove any debug codes. ie,
#If Debug
...
...
...
#else
...
...
#endif
I had this similar issue, Stops i followed
My issue wasn't due to any error. I had a BlockingCollection.GetConsumingEnumerable() in the way. That caused the windows service to wait.
I know this is old question, I used to write my own VB.NET windows service, and it has no issue to start on MS windows 7 and MS windows 10.
I have this issue when I install the windows services on latest MS windows 10 patch. The reason the windows service doesn't run it is because the .NET version that needed for the window services to run is not presented in the installed PC.
After you have installed the windows services. go to the install folder for example C:\Program files (x86)\Service1\Service1.exe and double click to run it. If there is missing .NET framework package, it will prompt the user to download it. Just download and and wait for it to install.
After that restart the windows services in services.msc. Hope this answer will help someone who face the issue. I know issue is caused by .NET framework version.
In my case it was permission for user account in AD. After set it correctly, it works perfect.
I had same problem. Unchecking "Sing the ClickOnce manifest", "Sign the assembly" and "Enable ClickOnce security settings" in project properties helped
To debug the startup of your service, add the following to the top of the OnStart()
method of your service:
while(!System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached) Thread.Sleep(100);
This will stall the service until you manually attach the Visual Studio Debugger using Debug -> Attach to Process...
Note: In general, if you need a user to interact with your service, it is better to split the GUI components into a separate Windows application that runs when the user logs in. You then use something like named pipes or some other form of IPC to establish communication between the GUI app and your service. This is in fact the only way that this is possible in Windows Vista.
I also faced similar problem and found that there was issue loading assembly. I was receiving this error immediately when trying to start the service.
To quickly debug the issue, try to run service executable via command prompt using ProcDump http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900. It shall provide sufficient hint about exact error.
http://bytes.com/topic/net/answers/637227-1053-error-trying-start-my-net-windows-service helped me quite a bit.
Once try to run your exe file. I had the same problem, but when I ran it direct by double click on the exe file, I got a message about .Net framework version, because I was released the service project with a framework which it wasn't installed on target machine.
In case you have a windows form used for testing, ensure that the startup object is still the service and not the windows form
I have removed
EventLog.Exists
and fixed.
In my case, I had this trouble due to a genuine error. Before the service constructor is called, one static constructor of member variable was failing:
private static OracleCommand cmd;
static SchedTasks()
{
try
{
cmd = new OracleCommand("select * from change_notification");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Log(e.Message);
// "The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client"
}
}
By adding try-catch block I found the exception was occuring because of wrong oracle version. Installing correct database solved the problem.
Adding 127.0.0.1 crl.microsoft.com to the "Hosts" file solved our issue.
This is usually caused by an uncaught exception in the service itself. (Configuration file errors eg). Opening a command prompt and starting the service executable manually wil perhaps reveal the exception been thrown.
If you are using Debug code as below in your service the problem may arise.
#if(!DEBUG)
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new EmailService()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
#else
//direct call function what you need to run
#endif
To fix this, while you build your windows service remove #if condition because it didn't work as it is.
Please use argument for debug mode instead as below.
if (args != null && args.Length > 0)
{
_isDebug = args[0].ToLower().Contains("debug");
}
this error can be caused due to various reasons. to identify the reason add try/ catch when service is run.
try
{
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new Service1()
};
<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun</span>);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
EventLog.WriteEntry("Application", ex.ToString(), <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">EventLogEntryType.Error</span>);
}
This problem usually occurs when there is some reference missing on your assembly and usually the binding fails at the run time.
to debug put Thread.Sleep(1000)
in the main()
. and put a break point in the next line of execution.
Then start the process and attach the debugger to the process while it is starting. Press f5 after it hit the break point. It will throw the exception of missing assembly or reference.
Hopefully this will resolve this error.
In my case, the issue was about caching configuration which is set in the App.config file. Once I removed below lines from the App.config file, the issue was resolved.
<cachingConfiguration defaultCacheManager="MyCacheManager">
<cacheManagers>
<add name="MyCacheManager" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Caching.CacheManager, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Caching, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
expirationPollFrequencyInSeconds="60"
maximumElementsInCacheBeforeScavenging="50000"
numberToRemoveWhenScavenging="1000"
backingStoreName="NullBackingStore" />
</cacheManagers>
<backingStores>
<add type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Caching.BackingStoreImplementations.NullBackingStore, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Caching, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
name="NullBackingStore" />
</backingStores>
Copy the release DLL or get the dll from release mode rather than Debug mode and paste it to installation folder,,it should work
In the case I ran into this morning, the culprit was a malformed config file. The config file had an close comment tag without the open comment tag. So, double check your config files for errors.
In service class within OnStart method don't do huge operation, OS expect short amount of time to run service, run your method using thread start:
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
Thread t = new Thead(new ThreadStart(MethodName)); // e.g.
t.Start();
}
I had this problem too. I made it to work by changing Log On account to Local System Account. In my project I had it setup to run as Local Service account. So when I installed it, by default it was using Local Service. I'm using .net 2.0 and VS 2005. So installing .net 1.1 SP1 wouldn't have helped.
I'd like to add my solution to this. Must admit, I use an additional configuration file ("ServiceIni.xml") with some settings to be changed by user on the fly. When I faced this error I made a research and did following:
static void Main()
{
try
{
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
{
new MyService()
};
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
LogChanges($"Error - {ex.Message}\nInner - {ex.InnerException}");
}
}
static void LogChanges(string message)
{
string LogPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "MyServiceLog.txt";
using (StreamWriter wr = File.AppendText(LogPath))
{
wr.WriteLine(message);
}
}
Error - Configuration system failed to initialize
Inner - System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: A section using 'configSource' may contain no other attributes or elements. (C:\...\bin\Release\MyService.exe.Config line 24)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors.ThrowIfErrors(Boolean ignoreLocal)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfParseErrors(ConfigurationSchemaErrors schemaErrors)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfInitErrors()
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit(String configKey)
<!-- Setting to use appSettings from external file -->
<appSettings configSource="ServiceIni.xml"/>
to
<appSettings configSource="ServiceIni.xml">
<add key="ClientSettingsProvider.ServiceUri" value="" />
</appSettings>
which generated this error.
Fixing back to original App.config solved the issue.
Release build did not work for me, however, I looked through my event viewer and Application log and saw that the Windows Service was throwing a security exception when it was trying to create an event log. I fixed this by adding the event source manually with administration access.
I followed this guide from Microsoft:
In my case I apparently had some extra symbols in my App.config file that I did not notice when building my solution. So I recomend to check the configuration file for errors first before taking steps with changing registry keys, switching configuration modes, etc.
I have installed .Net 4.6 on my WindowsServer computer and the error was fixed.
Your control should be this way:
If you would like to register a .NET core 3.1 executable as a Windows Service, please ensure that you added the nuget package Microsoft.Extension.Hosting.WindowsServices in version 3.1.7 or above and initialize the hostBuilder like in the following example:
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
namespace ConsoleApp1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] arguments)
{
IHostBuilder hostBuilder = Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(arguments);
hostBuilder.UseWindowsService();
hostBuilder.Build().Run();
}
}
}
Now you are able to install the executable and start it as a windows service:
sc.exe create ConsoleApp1 binPath= "<BIN_PATH>\ConsoleApp1.exe"
I was running into a similar problem with a Service I was writing. It worked fine then one day I started getting the timeout on Start errors. It happened in one &/or both Release and Debug depending on what was going on. I had instantiated an EventLogger from System.Diagnostics, but whatever error I was seeing must have been happening before the Logger was able to write...
If you are not aware of where to look up the EventLogs, in VS you can go to your machine under the Server Explorer. I started poking around in some of the other EventLogs besides those for my Service. Under Application - .NETRuntime I found the Error logs pertinent to the error on startup. Basically, there were some exceptions in my service's constructor (one turned out to be an exception in the EventLog instance setup - which explained why I could not see any logs in my Service EventLog). On a previous build apparently there had been other errors (which had caused me to make the changes leading to the error in the EventLog set up).
Long story short - the reason for the timeout may be due to various exceptions/errors, but using the Runtime EventLogs may just help you figure out what is going on (especially in the instances where one build works but another doesn't).
Hope this helps!
It is because of the Microsoft Windows Service Control, it controls sometimes the state of the services. If the service don´t send a respond in 30 seconds, then you will have this error.
You can modified the registry, so the service will have more time to respond
Go to Start > Run > and type regedit
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
With the control folder selected, right click in the pane on the right and select new DWORD Value
Name the new DWORD: ServicesPipeTimeout
Right-click ServicesPipeTimeout, and then click Modify
Click Decimal, type '180000', and then click OK
Restart the computer
Or be sure that in that moment there is not another process talking with the service, maybe there is a conflict I don´t know
After fighting this message for days, a friend told me that you MUST use the Release build. When I InstallUtil the Debug build, it gives this message. The Release build Starts fine.
We have Log4Net configured to log to a database table. The table had grown so large that the service was timing out trying to log messages.
I'm shooting blind here, but I've very often found that long delays in service startups are directly or indirectly caused by network function timeouts, often when attemting to contact a domain controller when looking up account SIDs - which happens very often indirectly via GetMachineAccountSid()
whether you realize it or not, since that function is called by the RPC subsystem.
For an example on how to debug in such situations, see The Case of the Process Startup Delays on Mark Russinovich's blog.
My issue was due to target framework mentioned in windows service config was
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6"/>
</startup>
and my server in which I tried to install windows service was not supported for this .Net version.
Changing which , I could able to resolve the issue.
As nobody has mentioned I will add it (even if it is a stupid mistake). In case you are on Windows 10 you don't usually need to restart, but
-> Make sure to CLOSE any open properties pages of the "services"-window in case you have just installed the service (and still have opened the properties page of the old service).
I'm talking about this window:
After closing all services windows and re-trying -> it worked. In contrast to the OP I got Error 1053
basically immediately (without windows waiting on anything)
I have just tried this code locally in .Net 4.5 and the service starts and stops correctly for me. I suspect your problem may be around creating the EventLog source.
The method:
EventLog.SourceExists("MySource")
requires that the user running the code must be an administrator, as per the documentation here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x7y6sy21(v=vs.110).aspx
Check that the service is running as a user that has administrator privileges.
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