Service Not Responding - Error 1053

The program starts correctly if I double-click it or if I debug it from VS2010, but it doesn't respond when I try running it from Services.msc. It used to work just fine, but I tried to un-register and then re-register the service to fix a different bug and now I get the following error:

Could not start the PFAdapterMng service on Local Computer.

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

I tried putting logs at the beginning of main(), and I found out that the service stops responding before it even gets there.

I've tried using Procmon to figure out if there's some registry key missing, but I couldn't find any problems through Procmon.

I've also tried re-registering the service to try to fix it, since re-registering the service was what caused the error in the first place. It doesn't seem to fix anything either.

I've stepped through the program with the parameters -UnregServer and -Service to ensure that the program was being unregistered and registered successfully, and it looks like it's being registered as a service correctly.

Is this because of some error in the registry? I don't see how or why my program stops responding before it even gets to main().

What else could I try to do to debug this problem?

UPDATE:

So, I tried un-registering the service after trying to run it, and it seemed to work fine. I look in services.msc, and I still see that the application is a service. In the past, before I got error 1053, it would just disappear after the first time. I tried un-registering it again, and I got a message box:

Service could not be deleted

So I decided to run the application with the parameter -UnregServer inside of Visual Studio 2010 to figure out what the error is. The function DeleteService() is failing with the error:

ERROR_SERVICE_MARKED_FOR_DELETE

The service is not removed until all open handles to the service have been closed. I stepped through the calls to the CloseServiceHandle() function and it seems like the handles were closed successfully. The service is also not removed if the service is running. I checked Process Manager, and the service was not running. Is the service not being removed because the service stopped responding earlier?

I tried restarting my computer and it was gone. Still, I don't understand why I have to restart my computer when the service used to un-register without the need of a restart before I was getting error 1053. Unless of course I can't un-register the service because the service was not stopped because it stopped responding.

I'll keep trying some more things, but I'm running out of ideas.

UPDATE2:

I tri开发者_JAVA技巧ed rebuilding the original application, which I know worked as a service. This means the problem is not related to any of my code. Something is messed up with the Services Control Manager. I don't understand why I only get this error with this application. I have another application which communicates with this application which also needs to be registered as a service. I have no problems with that application. It works perfectly.

But for some reason, this application just stopped responding all of a sudden. I don't know what I changed or broke to cause the service to hang before it even gets to my main() function. The only thing I can think of now to fix the problem is to reformat the server, which is not an option.

Thanks, Krzys

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I feel stupid.

I've been using Remote Desktop Connection to connect to this server. Well, the service is starting and erroring out. The reason I didn't see any errors or message boxes was because they were appearing on the console session. I was not connected to the console session. I connected to the server using:

mstsc.exe /admin

And now I can see where the program stops responding.

Feels great to waste 10 hours though.