Bill
Sun Aug 07 14:31:43 CDT 2005
David
Thanks for the additional info/explanation. Whatever is lost probably
won't surface until enough time has past that I won't remember this event!
Bill
"David Wang [Msft]" <someone@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "IIS" actually consists of several Windows services and inter-related
> components.
>
> The part that was failing to start was the "World Wide Web Service" which
> represents the HTTP server. There are other related components including
> an
> FTP Server, NNTP Server, SMTP Server, BITS, POP3 Server, etc that all have
> dependencies on the core "IIS Admin Service". Not all of these services
> are
> available for XP.
>
> In your case, iisreset was referring to restarting the "IIS Admin Service"
> but failed to start the "World Wide Web Service".
>
> iisreset is a pretty hacky tool useful only on W2K/WXP to "un-hang" IIS by
> literally forcing the various IIS services to stop (optionally restart)
> and
> if it doesn't happen, kill the necessary processes (and suffer possible
> data-loss/corruption) in order to stop for certain and be able to restart
> "IIS Admin Service" and related services again.
>
>
> Right now, it sounds like you had something that was trying to load during
> "WWW Service" startup and it hung -- and iisreset basically killed IIS
> Admin
> Service (without telling you, of course) to be able to restart (services
> don't transition from "starting" state to "stopped" state if it is stuck).
> It failed to restart again, but for some reason, that something which was
> hanging was no longer configured to run during startup, so your subsequent
> startups have been ok. Maybe iisreset managed a good sort of data-loss by
> removing the "something" that was hanging. Don't know.
>
> Well, without more info on what that "something" is, I cannot say whether
> you will see this again. My suspicion is that Windows Media Center Edition
> runs some custom ISAPI on IIS that was hanging, and you probably lost some
> other functionality but it is not clear what was lost.
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
>
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> //
> "Bill Cohagan" <cohagan@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:eSvP$eqmFHA.3144@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Ken
> Thanks for the response. In the process of trying your suggestion I seem
> to have "cured" the problem. I had already changed the service settings
> to
> make the startup manual rather than automatic (in order to not have the
> hung
> service hanging around.) I attempted to start the service via service
> admin
> applet and it hung as before. This was all before posting the original
> message here.
>
> In response to your suggestion I wanted to try again via the service
> admin
> applet and get the specifics of the resulting message/event. First I
> needed
> to clear the hung service. In order to avoid a reboot I tried running
> iisreset from a command prompt. It appeared to run normally, first
> shutting
> down IIS, then restarting it; however the www service ended up in the
> stopped state. This was an improvement from the "starting" state.
>
> Next I tried starting the service again from the applet. It worked! The
> service started up right away. I stopped/started it several times with no
> problem. Finally I changed it back to Automatic startup, rebooted and it
> started up OK.
>
> So, it appears that running iisreset cleared out some cruft and now
> things
> are back to normal. While I'm not particularly comfortable with the magic
> content of this solution it is nice to have things running again. One
> question remaining however is that iisreset reported that IIS had started,
> but the www service in fact had NOT started. I guess these are two
> different
> things, but how can IIS start normally when the service is not running?
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
> "Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
> news:uB9dRjomFHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> If you go into the Services Administration tool, and attempt to start the
>> World Wide Web Publishing service, is another, more informative, event
>> logged? If so, can you post the event ID, source and description?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>>
>> --
>> IIS Blog: www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/
>> Web: www.adopenstatic.com
>>
>>
>> "Bill Cohagan" <cohagan@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:OFcuhEimFHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> : I'm running Windows XP MCE SP2. While chasing an unrelated (I hope!)
>> problem
>> : I was looking at the event log and notice that WWW svc is hung in the
>> : "starting" state and a corresponding event log entry is generated each
>> time
>> : I reboot. Looking back in the logs I see that the first occurrence of
>> this
>> : was on 6/25, although that particular date means nothing special to me.
>> (OK,
>> : my birthday is on 6/26. I *hope* that's not the cause!)
>> :
>> : Obviously I haven't been using IIS, but in fact plan on beginning work
>> on
>> an
>> : ASP app soon, so will need the service to run. Any suggestions as to
>> how
>> I
>> : might troubleshoot this problem?
>> :
>> : Thanks in advance,
>> : Bill
>> :
>> :
>>
>>
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