"Arnie" wrote:

> We're using the ServiceController class provided by the .NET Framework,
> programming in C#.  We are using the Start() method to start a service from
> another service.  This works fine most of the time, but occasionally after a
> system startup (where the service doing the starting of the other is
> automatically started by Windows XP) the ServiceController's Start() method
> fails to start the other service.  It is probably throwing an
> InvalidOperationException in these cases (we know it is in some cases).  Is
> there any way to tell why Windows cannot start the service, and are there
> known problems with the reliability of the Start() method?  It works most of
> the time, but occasionally after unsealing the XP OS, or after a restart,
> this fails.  We're trying retries of calls to the Start() method, but after
> 3 retries it still fails inexplicably.
>
>
>
> We need to find out if:
>
>
>
>   1.. this is a known problem
>   2.. how long does it wait, and is this wait time adequate?
>   3.. can this happen if one of the services upon which the service being
> started depends takes too long to start?  We are quite sure the actual
> service being started takes almost no time to execute its two lines that
> consist of starting a worker thread in its OnStart() method.
>   4.. is there some reason this would only occur after an unseal or system
> restart (that's the only time we see it)?
>   5.. there are any known fixes or workarounds to this problem
>
>
>

"Adam May" <adammay.at.gmail.***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Arnie,
>
> Most of the problems that I've come across with the Start() method have
> been
> of my own doing.
>
> Are you able to post the code that you've got in your Start() so that we
> can
> help further?
>
> Adam
> --
> Adam May
> Sydney, Australia
> MCSD.Net
>
>
> "Arnie" wrote:
>
>> We're using the ServiceController class provided by the .NET Framework,
>> programming in C#.  We are using the Start() method to start a service
>> from
>> another service.  This works fine most of the time, but occasionally
>> after a
>> system startup (where the service doing the starting of the other is
>> automatically started by Windows XP) the ServiceController's Start()
>> method
>> fails to start the other service.  It is probably throwing an
>> InvalidOperationException in these cases (we know it is in some cases).
>> Is
>> there any way to tell why Windows cannot start the service, and are there
>> known problems with the reliability of the Start() method?  It works most
>> of
>> the time, but occasionally after unsealing the XP OS, or after a restart,
>> this fails.  We're trying retries of calls to the Start() method, but
>> after
>> 3 retries it still fails inexplicably.
>>
>>
>>
>> We need to find out if:
>>
>>
>>
>>   1.. this is a known problem
>>   2.. how long does it wait, and is this wait time adequate?
>>   3.. can this happen if one of the services upon which the service being
>> started depends takes too long to start?  We are quite sure the actual
>> service being started takes almost no time to execute its two lines that
>> consist of starting a worker thread in its OnStart() method.
>>   4.. is there some reason this would only occur after an unseal or
>> system
>> restart (that's the only time we see it)?
>>   5.. there are any known fixes or workarounds to this problem
>>
>>
>>