#29 winexesvc becomes unstartable with intensive use

[Thomas Hood]

My colleague has been testing extensively with winxp, win2k3, win7, win2k8, win8, win2k12 and reports the following problem.

What happens is that eventually, an installed winexesvc service on a target system becomes unstartable. The error message is:

Service cannot start, status=0x00000001
ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

Removing the service on the target system with "sc delete winexesvc" and then running winexe again seems to work, but within a few hours the service becomes unstartable again.

[ahajda]

Could you provide some steps neccesary to reproduce this bug.

[Thomas Hood]

I have asked my colleague to provide more information.

[Thomas Hood]

My colleague never encountered the problem again because, since then, he has not used winexe so intensively. The problem arose with intensive use.

[Thomas Hood]

I just used winexe to run thousands of dir commands in a tight loop on a Windows 7 system and saw no probs.

[ahajda]

Not reproducible

[Ben]

I realise this is closed, but I can add a bit more info...

This seems to be a timing related issue. I use winexe in scripts a lot, and often see this unless I add -d1 (or greater) to the command. This gives me a lot of extra debug info....and avoids the error ever appearing.

My best guess is that printing the debug info slows down....something, just enough to avoid whatever the fault condition is

[ahajda]

Still cannot reproduce. By the way, do you use --reinstall/--uninstall options?

[Ben]

Oh well - I can't reliably reproduce it either, other than it occurs
sometimes. However, since adding the debug flags reliably works around it
it isn't a big deal.

I have never used the --reinstall/--uninstall options

Are they housekeeping calls for removing the service on machines?

Happy NY btw

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:06 PM, ahajda ahajda@users.sf.net wrote:

Still cannot reproduce. By the way, do you use --reinstall/--uninstall
options?

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• [bugs:#29] http://sourceforge.net/p/winexe/bugs/29 winexesvc becomes
  unstartable with intensive use*

Status: closed-rejected
Group: none
Created: Fri May 31, 2013 04:09 PM UTC by Thomas Hood
Last Updated: Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:04 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

My colleague has been testing extensively with winxp, win2k3, win7,
win2k8, win8, win2k12 and reports the following problem.

What happens is that eventually, an installed winexesvc service on a
target system becomes unstartable. The error message is:

Service cannot start, status=0x00000001ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

Removing the service on the target system with "sc delete winexesvc" and
then running winexe again seems to work, but within a few hours the service
becomes unstartable again.

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