Re: Service not starting: Error 1053

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Frank Featherlight <dirtydude(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Service not starting: Error 1053
Date: 2009-02-25 12:17:27
Message-ID: 49A536D7.3070907@archonet.com
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> Of course, none of this helps if the culprit is a DLL or a 3rd party
>> program that allocates the adress space immediately at CreateProcess.
>
> AFAIK all the cases where we *have* identified the culprit (which has
> been antivirus or firewall), this is exactly what it was doing...

Would it be possible to build a tool that runs through a series of
permission-checks, tries to grab some shared-memory, write to files in
the appropriate folders etc. and then shows the name of any process
interfering? Half the problem is that whenever someone has
Windows-related difficulties there's no standard tools we can use to
diagnose.

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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