On 2014-04-28 21:51, A C wrote: > On 2014-04-28 21:24, David Taylor wrote: >> On 29/04/2014 00:53, 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. >> >> Yes, I installed the Meinberg "London" distribution a few days ago, >> according to the instructions here: >> >> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html >> >> No problems, and I could later update it to 4.2.7p440 - the current >> "dev" release. Note that I installed /outside/ the "Program Files" >> tree, so that NTP and users could have write access to the necessary files. >> > > Followed the same instructions, no dice.
Ok, so on a whim I purged it completely from the system. Installed from scratch and the same problem occurred, no starting up of the process. I let the installation complete without letting it try to start the service again. Then I simply performed a "reinstall" where it detected the existing installation and overwrote the files. It performed an update and suddenly the service starts up on its own. I have no idea why it did that but it took two back to back installations to fix it. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
