On 2014-04-28 18:37, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2014-04-28 17:53, A C wrote: >> Has anyone recently (within the last few months) tried installing the >> Meinberg compiled ntpd on Win 7 successfully? I just built a new >> machine, put a clean copy of Win 7 on it, tried to install ntpd and >> ended up with the "unable to start" error (number 1053). The ntpd user >> account was created, the service was installed, the directories were >> populated, the config file was generated but it wouldn't start. > > Which release - current stable 4.2.6p5 - or previous? > Did you check to see if the process was already running under > TaskManager all users processes? > Does the ntp userid have access rights to the config, log, and stats > directories? > Are you running on W7 32 or 64 bit?
It's 64 bit Win 7. The version is the one available on Meinberg's site (4.2.6p5). The process was not running when it attempted to start after installation. All access controls were fine. The registry looked the same as below, too. It just refused to start. Restarts didn't help either. All the things one might expect to be incorrect were fine, it simply refused to start. > What is the output from the command: > reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NTP /s > > It should look something like below but perhaps with more quotes and > backslashes, different paths, and shorter ImagePath (service start > command line): > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NTP > Type REG_DWORD 0x10 > Start REG_DWORD 0x3 > ErrorControl REG_DWORD 0x1 > ImagePath REG_SZ "C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\ntpd.exe" -g > -M -s C:/ProgramData/NTP/etc/ -p C:/ProgramData/NTP/etc/ntp.pid -l > C:/ProgramData/NTP/etc/ntp.log -f C:/ProgramData/NTP/etc/ntp.drift -c > "C:/ProgramData/NTP/etc/ntp.conf" > DisplayName REG_SZ Network Time Protocol Daemon > DependOnService REG_MULTI_SZ Tcpip > WOW64 REG_DWORD 0x1 > ObjectName REG_SZ .\ntp > Description REG_SZ Synchronizes the local system clock to a > reference time source and (eventually) provide this time to NTP and/or > SNTP clients > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NTP\Parameters > ConfigurationFile REG_SZ C:/ProgramData/NTP/etc/ntp.conf > > If all else fails, try a restart, then an uninstall, then another > restart, then another install, then maybe another restart. > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
