Hi Greg, while I was encountering my "services fail to start" problem, I did the following,
1. Try to start manually by running .exe in console to see if it can be started (it might be a problem of service application), if it fails to start, we can detect what is missing by dependency walker. 2. At services.msc, with the privileged account/administrator, try to start/stop the service to see if it is really the permission problem 3. Try to kill the previous installed services before installing the new ones. They might be preventing the current services with the same name from starting. SC stop [servicename] SC delete [servicename] Your code seems fine. Good luck! Bo -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Greg Edwards [mailto:gedwa...@polariswireless.com] Inviato: mercoledì 5 marzo 2014 00.05 A: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Oggetto: [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
