That happens to be more of a generic message. I had that happen just last week and turned out to be missing VC 2012 runtime.
Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Greg Edwards [mailto:gedwa...@polariswireless.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 4:05 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Windows Service Fails to Start I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 and my Service Installer now fails to start the service. It seems to get installed but failes to start I receive the following message box from the installer: "Service 'Altus Service' (AltusService) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system service." I am running under the command prompt as Administrator. The pertinent WIX is as follows: <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Component Id="AltusService.exe" Guid="{980F0B9A-9F25-B729-7225-F24075392C80}"> <File Id="AltusServiceExe" Name="AltusService.exe" KeyPath="yes" ShortName="ALTUSC1.EXE" DiskId="1" Source="$(var.AltusService)\AltusWindowsService.exe" /> <ServiceInstall Id="ServiceInstaller" Type="ownProcess" Vital="yes" Name="AltusService" DisplayName="Altus Service" Description="Altus Service" Start="auto" Account="LocalSystem" ErrorControl="ignore" Interactive="no" /> <ServiceControl Id="StartService" Start="install" Stop="uninstall" Remove="uninstall" Name="AltusService" Wait="yes" /> </Component> <Component Id="AltusService.pdb" Guid="{2F53DECB-75AC-AE19-50BB-1B07CEFECEE0}"> <File Id="AltusServicePdb" Name="AltusService.pdb" KeyPath="yes" ShortName="ALTUSW1.PDB" DiskId="1" Source="$(var.AltusService)\AltusWindowsService.pdb" /> </Component> <Component Id="AltusService.exe.config" Guid="{F4B29B22-4FAD-1B34-E971-ACA4A1BE0F06}"> <File Id="AltusServiceExeConfig" Name="AltusWindowsService.exe.config" KeyPath="yes" ShortName="ALTUSC1.CON" DiskId="1" Source="..\AltusWindowsService\App.config" /> </Component> </Directory> <Feature Id="DefaultFeature" ConfigurableDirectory="TARGETDIR" Level="1"> <ComponentRef Id="AltusService.pdb" Primary="yes" /> <ComponentRef Id="AltusService.exe" Primary="yes" /> <ComponentRef Id="AltusService.exe.config" Primary="yes" /> </Feature> Is there is switch that I am missing to allow the service to start? Thank you. -Greg Edwards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
