The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion?

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I have a RPC server & client written in c++. I have .exe for both of them. When i tried to create a service from those exe(using sc create) the service is getting created but its not starting. It shows the error message -"The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion?" I googled the stuff and increased the timeout period but it also did not worked. Atlast i created the service using "Always Up" software and it worked just fine. Any idea what I can do to solve the problem using sc create?
(N.B-The service is created from the exe file which does not have any onstart or onstop methods unlike the services created from windows service template )

Posted 18-Aug-15 20:02pm

Somesh Dhal

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It is often a dll problem. Some missing dlls for your module. Not a release build? Another problem are also rights: the service needs often admin rights to run.

Tip: You can debug the service via building it to the install destination and than run it on the debugger.

Posted 18-Aug-15 21:08pm

KarstenK

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barneyman · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-18T22:56:00

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i think you misunderstand services and sc

sc create makes the registry changes necessary to run a properly compiled windows service.exe, it does *nothing* to create that service.exe for you

you can't just make a normal exe run as a service (alwaysUp is cheating because *it* runs as a service and simply spawns your exe)

And please don't ask the same question repeatedly - The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion?[^]

Posted 18-Aug-15 22:56pm

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Somesh Dhal 19-Aug-15 6:47am

Can you provide any links that explains how to create a windows service in c++?

barneyman 19-Aug-15 7:52am

no, but i can google

https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=c%2B%2B%20windows%20service&es_th=1