Windows 9.16.25 fails to start (1067 Terminated unexpectedly)

[Jakob Bohm]

I know this, and I am quite familiar with low level debugging techniques 
on Windows, though my favorite tool for the job was ruined by 
unfortunate business decisions to bundle it with irrelevant software 
that would be needed only in a completely different license count, if at 
all.

I could probably set up a debugging scenario with a private compilation 
(to get debug symbols) and an artificial installation of more recent 
toolchain to work with the official ISC build instructions, though I 
strongly suspect a clean process exit with a return code of 0 
(Depending, how good Windows is at capturing the return code of the 
exited product).  But I was hoping there was a way to find out directly,
such as an option to make the entire startup sequence non-parallel and 
verbose, thus revealing the exact point of failure.

On 2022-02-17 17:15, Danny Mayer wrote:
> I can short-cut that a little! :) A 1067 error is always the Windows 
> named service failing to start. The reasons behind it are much harder to 
> figure out. I've seen these over the years but I don't know off the top 
> of my head why.
> 
> Danny
> 
> On 2/17/22 9:26 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> Log isn’t going to help here if named is crashing. Getting a backtrace 
>> or anything that closely resembles one would help. Running debug build 
>> under MSVS would help. Or doing git bisect and pinpoint the breakage 
>> to a commit or at least Merge commit would help.
>>
>> This is part of the problem - debugging on Windows is extremely 
>> painful and requires expertise with extremely high learning curve.
>>
>> --
>> Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him)
>>
>> My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do 
>> not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours.
>>
>>> On 17. 2. 2022, at 15:08, Jakob Bohm via bind-users 
>>> <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> On 2022-02-12 01:06, Richard T.A. Neal wrote:
>>>
>>>> I run BIND on Windows as well but I've been unable to upgrade to 9.16.25 - I get an error stating "Error Validating Account. Unable to install service using this account.". So I'm presently running 9.16.21.
>>>>
>>>> What are the last few things in the Application Event Log (Source: named) before it terminates?
>>>>
>>>> Richard.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: bind-users<bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org>  On Behalf Of Jakob Bohm via bind-users
>>>> Sent: 11 February 2022 12:19 pm
>>>> To: bind-users<bind-users at lists.isc.org>
>>>> Subject: Windows 9.16.25 fails to start (1067 Terminated unexpectedly)
>>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> When recently trying to upgrade some secondary-only authoritative servers running on Windows machines, I found that Bind 9.16.25 (x86_64) binaries from isc.org failed to completely startup, causing Windows to report that "1067 The process terminated unexpectedly.", with 0 process exit code.  Attempting to up the debug level all the way to "-d 100"
>>>> failed to log a reason, but downgrading to the 9.16.21 binaries resumed operation.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a known issue and workaround for this, or is there any additional information to extract?
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>> The latest in the log (I directed it to a file, as the Event Viewer 
>>> wrapping in the port was badly done) were the mentioned fetch of ./NS 
>>> etc. interspersed with zone loading messages for default zones (I 
>>> temporarily commented out the real zones to shorten the config, but 
>>> it still failed).
>>>
>>> Enjoy
>>>
>>> Jakob
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Enjoy

Jakob
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