Windows could not start the service on a local computer"

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I have created a WCF library with windows service and i have installed my service using installutil and it is successfully installed but i am unable to start the service.When i start the service i am getting below error

"Windows could not start the Service1 service on a local computer"

Error 1067:The process terminated unexpectedly.

This is the example i have used

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649818.aspx[^]

Posted 22-Aug-13 18:28pm

shacha

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Aug-13 0:52am

There can be too many ways to screw up things. How can we know how you did it?
—SA

Bernhard Hiller 23-Aug-13 3:13am

And what does event viewer tell you about the failure? Any further details about the error? Do you use some logging? And what can see in the log files?

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Anh Nguyen Trong · Answer 1 · 2013-08-22T22:04:00

In design mode. Right click --> Add Installer. We get the file ProjectInstaller. We can see two, ServiceProcessInstall1 and ServiceInstaller1.

Click F7 and see

C#

[RunInstaller(true)]
    public partial class ProjectInstaller : System.Configuration.Install.Installer
    {
        public ProjectInstaller()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}

Right Click at InitializeComponent(); choose Go to Definition (F12) You can go to

C#

/// </summary>
       private void InitializeComponent()
       {
           this.serviceProcessInstaller1 = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceProcessInstaller();
           this.serviceInstaller1 = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceInstaller();
           //
           // serviceProcessInstaller1
           //
           this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Password = null;
           this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Username = null;
           //
           // serviceInstaller1
           //
           this.serviceInstaller1.ServiceName = "Service1";
           //
           // ProjectInstaller
           //
           this.Installers.AddRange(new System.Configuration.Install.Installer[] {
           this.serviceProcessInstaller1,
           this.serviceInstaller1});

       }

and change it like above. It works

Anh Nguyen Trong · Answer 2 · 2013-08-22T18:31:00

Please try this:

C#

this.serviceProcessInstaller1 = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceProcessInstaller();
this.serviceInstaller1 = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceInstaller();
//
// serviceProcessInstaller1
//
this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Account = System.ServiceProcess.ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Password = null;
this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Username = null;
//
// serviceInstaller1
//
this.serviceInstaller1.ServiceName = "TimerThreadService";
this.serviceInstaller1.StartType = System.ServiceProcess.ServiceStartMode.Automatic;

Abhinav S · Answer 3 · 2013-08-22T18:34:00

Solution 2

Two things
1) Make sure any dependent services are started.
2) You have enough free memory.

Posted 22-Aug-13 18:34pm

Abhinav S

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shacha 23-Aug-13 3:27am

There are no dependent services and i have tried this example using this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649818.aspx

Windows could not start the service on a local computer"

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