X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47CED223.9040606@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:02:27 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: service already exists References: <15847455.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <15847455.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com veredgf wrote: > Hi, > > I installed cygwin on a w2k3 server (with sp2). > It worked fine for a while and then we began getting permission denied on > /bin/bash. Sounds a little like a problem to me. Have you checked into that? > To try and solve the problem I tried to uninstall and reinstall cygwin... I > had lots of problems with the reinstallation process. It would not recreate > the service and the service user .... finally I deleted just about any > related key from the registry and things improved slightly.... the config > process started to create the service and also created the user but then I > get the following error message: > > cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: OpenService: Win32 error 1073: > The specified service already exists. > > when I run cygrunsrv -L - I get the following error: > > cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: QueryServiceConfig: Win32 error 2: > The system cannot find the file specified. > > I can't see the service itself in the service list, nor can I find it in the > registry... > > I'm at my end's wit... > > Rebooting the server is a last resort since this is a prod server.... > > Any solutions? Have you tried removing the service in question with 'cygwunsrv --remove ' ? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/