I have a critical windows service that I need for my web application.
Unfortunately, the windows service does not start properly, but remains in a status of "Starting" for about 7 minutes and 38 seconds, and then fails.
My web application works fine when the service is in the "Starting" mode.
I have a windows scheduled task that runs every minute to restart the service if necessary.
net start "my service"
Therefore there is a gap of about 22 seconds from when the service fails until it starts up again. In additional it takes an additional 30 seconds or so for my application (which is dependent on this service) to start working.
I have intentionally not named the errant service. I did open a separate question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8470975/oracle-oc4j-service-keeps-stopping whose aim was to actually solve the problem.
In this question, I am not trying to solve the problem, but rather find a workaround to try and keep this service in a status of "Starting" the whole time.
What is infuriating, is that until I restarted the server today, my workaround of restarting the service every 3 minutes actually worked, with no application downtime whatsoever.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I did try changing the registry key of ServicesPipeTimeout to 86400000 (24 hours!) in a bid to keep the service in the status of "Starting" for longer.
I have found a possible solution to my problem that I am very uneasy about...
I downloaded WinDbg from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8279
I opened WinDbg and did Attach to Process, and selected my service.
As long as WinDbg is open, it seems to "hold" the process and prevent it from stopping.
How long it will continue to do so, remains to be seen, but it has held for over half an hour now (whereas before the service stopped after 8 minutes)
If you have the timeout set to 24 hours and the service does not start or stay in 'starting' mode , then it must be either crashing or closing itself down.
If you want to try to restarting your service immediately it crashes, then, on the properties of your service, select the 'Recovery' tab. You should be able to set the service to restart on first, second and subsequent failures and set the service to restart after 0 minutes,
Note, this will not work if windows thinks that the service is closing down properly.
It should go without saying that this is a last resort only if you can't get whoever wrote the service to fix the problems.
Try specifying 'Restart the Service' for all three sections on the Recovery tab, but that will only work if the service is ending abnormally.
Our company faced a similar problem and we developed Service Protector, a commercial application that can babysit a service and keep it running 24/7. It may work in your situation too.
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This might sound like a dumb question, but here's the problem. I am developing a PWA for a client and everything works fine : the service worker gets installed, as well as the app on the desktop.
I know how to uninstall both the app and the service worker programmatically.
But, for instance on an old Samsung tablet running Android 4.4, the app icon can be dragged to the trash on the desktop (like any shortcut) and then the app is uninstalled, but the service worker is still active and running (I can see it in DevTools).
Question : how to get rid of service workers after a PWA has been trashed that way ?
My concern is that end users of the app might delete it that way, and still have a service worker active on their mobile...
Thanks in advance.
The process for a service worker will automatically stop running after a short period of idleness–somewhere between under a minute to maybe 5 minutes, depending on the browser and operating system.
If you have Chrome's DevTools open, then that will artificially keep the service worker process alive indefinitely, to aid in debugging. (It would be frustrating if you were trying to debug something related to the state of the service worker, and the service worker process stopped right in the middle.)
This only applies when you've got DevTools open, though, so you should have faith that it will stop on its own if you're not "looking" at it.
I have a process in windows which i am running in startup. Now i need to make it if somehow that process get killed or stopped i need to restart it again in Windows 10?
Is there any way. Process is a HTTP server which if somehow stopped in windows i need to restart it. I have tried of writing a power-shell in which I'll check task-list status of process and then if not found I'll restart but that is not a good way. Please suggest some good way to do it.
I have a golang exe; under a particular scenario my process got killed or stopped i need to start it up again automatically. This has to be done imediately after the exe got killed. What is the best way to achieve this?
I will give you a brief rundown. You can enable Audit Process Termination in local group policy of the machine as shown below. In your case, success audits would be enough. Please note that the pic is for Windows 7. It may change with OS.
Now every time a process gets terminated, a success event will be generated and written to the security eventlog.
This will allow you to create a task scheduler that triggers on the generation of this event that calls a script that would run the process again. Simple right?
Well, you might have some trouble setting that task up especially when you want to pass details about the generating event to the script. This should help you get through that.
You can user Task scheduler for this purpose. There is a option of "restart on failure" which can be selected and whenever your process get failed it will restart again.
Reference :- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/4545361c-cc1f-4505-a0a1-c2dcc094109a/restarting-scheduled-task-that-has-failed?forum=winserverManagement
I provide support for a large application across multiple servers. System has been running live for 6+ months.
8th December: total system failure. iisreset across each of the servers sorted it out. Everything back to normal.
Post failure investigation showed various processes not able to get a response from a particular server which hosts an instance of Dynamics CRM (2011 R11). Specifically it seems the SOAP service was not responding (Organization.svc). 503 - Server Unavailable (really it was just the web service). I suspect it died.
Having the exact time of the error I checked the event logs on the server but these did not have anything of use. The last error prior to the failure was a report rendering error which was 9 minutes before the system actually went down. Surely if web service crashed this would be reflected in the event log?
Fast forward to today, 8th January and the system fails again. The 8th of the month again! iisreset fixes it... again!
Again, completely useless event logs showings no errors prior to failure.
Entertained the idea of Dynamics CRM trace logging but this is out of the question due to the performance hit.
Apart from the event logs where else to look? Are there possible external factors or causes? I'm trying to find the root cause but have run out of ideas!
While this may not address the source of your problem, maybe it can help minimize the symptoms. May I suggest that you configure the IIS server to recycle the application pool at a scheduled interval within your production environment.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753179%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
I have a service MyService.exe that is babysitting my application MyApp.exe, meaning it starts the application when this one crashes or whatever. Basically when the service is stopped the application is stopped (by the service) and when the service is started the application is started by the service.
In order to stop my service and by that my application when uninstalling I'm doing:
<ServiceControl Id='MyServiceControl' Name='MyServiceForTest' Start='install' Stop='uninstall' Remove='uninstall'/>
But when I want to uninstall everything I get the error message: "The setup must update files or services that cannot be updated while the system is running. If you choose to continue, a reboot will be required to complete the setup.". If I manually stop the service before running the uninstaller I don't get this msg as both my service and my application aren't then running anymore.
In the log file I noticed that this happens in InstallValidate and I get this message b/c of MyApp.exe being running.
I think what happens is: the uninstallers checks the running applications, it notices that the MyService.exe and MyApp.exe are both running, detects probably that the MyService.exe will be stopped by the uninstaller itself as instructed, but doesn't know about the MyApp.exe that this one will also be terminated once the service will be stopped so it will show the reboot-message.
I can't just close MyApp.exe from uninstaller b/c the service will restart it again.
How could I solve this problem so that the user won't need to reboot or to manually stop the service before doing an uninstall/upgrade? Also, I can't change MyService and MyApp code anymore so I will have to do this from the (un)installer only.
TIA,
Viv
I would expose a mechanism in your service in which your installer can instruct it to stand down and terminate the application. This way when Windows Installer costing looks for locked files it doesn't find any.
What is the best way to stop/start Fiddler as a daily task?
I am usin Fiddler to monitor/logs https trafficon machine which runs fully automated and runs software which is not controlled by me, but uses https.
My machine stopped yesterday because Fiddler went out of memory after running over 3 days and now I want to have a clean way to start/stop it.
I guess I could just specify a process duration in the task manager, but I would prefer something cleaner, especially to avoid issues when things are started manually.
Just use Scheduled Tasks, they have been part of windows since forever. You should be able to stop fiddler with it too (by calling TaskKill).