Hey Taco, here are a few thoughts. Besides what's been offered so far, when you say "Have already tried looking in all the CF logs, nothing much interesting that can be of any help", can you clarify if you really mean more than the "cf logs"? It's not clear if you're running server or multiserver mode: if the former, have you looked in [cf]\runtime\logs? If the latter, [jrun]\logs? Those logs nearly always should have info for the kind of problem you're facing.
As for your suspecting that it's that the jrunsvc.exe is missing, I don't know that I'd conclude that. It could be anything. I'd really expect it to be clarified in the log above. As for it taking a long time for the service to start, that too is nearly always explanaed in the logs above. More on that in a moment. What I'd recommend is that rather than use the windows service control panel to start CF, instead use the command line to do it, as 'net start "servicename"'. By doing that, you should be able to avoid a problem of the service control panel timing out, since now the service can take as long to start (or stop) as needed. (I do get that sometimes people want to just kill a service with task manager when it's taking a long time to stop. I'll say this technique is helpful if you can give it that few minutes, so you can get to the bottom of the root cause). Then as for finding out what was holding up the startup, since some log entries have no timestamp, I'd recommend opening the log (which would be coldfusion-out.log in Server mode) using an editor or file viewer that lets you either "tail" the file or refresh it while waiting for it to start, so you can see what pops up as soon as it does come up. There has to be an answer. As for the error about the debugger, that's not a CF error but a Windows error, so it's not referring at all to CF's debugging output set in the Admin. I doubt also that it's referring even to CF's new step debugging (available in 8 and 9). The windows help about the message (the link offered by Gabriel) suggests that you should be able to find more in the Windows Event logs. (He refers as well to a "cf debugger running as a windows service", but there is none that I'm aware of.) Finally, I notice that the original message you report refers specifically to the ODBC service. Are you really using ODBC? If not, perhaps just try stopping that service. /charlie arehart [email protected] Providing fast, remote, on-demand troubleshooting services for CF (and CFBuilder) More at http://www.carehart.org/consulting From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Haeusler Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [cfaussie] Re: The ColdFusion 9 Application Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified.. I once had a CF server that refused to start up, and just timed out with a meaningless message. It turned out that either the jrun or windows temp directory had a huge number of 0 byte files in there (140k files or something ridiculous). Once i cleared out the temp files, the server started up immediately. I never figured out what caused it, but it's something i keep an eye on now. May pay to check your server's temp directories. Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
