Re: Service not responding in a timely fashion (error 1053)

From:
"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:53:15 -0700
Message-ID:
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Not only is this rude to take so long, especially if the service starts
automatically, this is by design.

From the docs:

"The control handler must return within 30 seconds, or the SCM returns an
error. If a service must do lengthy processing when the service is executing
the control handler, it should create a secondary thread to perform the
lengthy processing, and then return from the control handler."

Mark

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Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++

"Aakash" <aakash.m.joshi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1189439347.080954.117460@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

While starting a windows NT service, a dialog box pops up indicating
that "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
timely fashion" (error 1053)

My service takes around 2-3 mins to start. In my code I continuously
update the status of my service using the dwWaitHint and dwCheckPoint
variables with SetServiceStatus API. I made sure that the values are
updated properly with the SCM using "sc query <service_name>" command.
Service does gets started after all the initialization is completed.

Problem is: Can I get rid of that pop up error dialog box mentioned
above. When I say start service from the services panel, a progress
bar continues for around 30 secs and pops up a error message as
mentioned above.

After clicking ok on that, i can see the status of my service changed
to "starting" and eventually "started"

Help me getting rid of that error dialog box. Is it possible ?

Thanx

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