Bind 9.6.0p1- Windows - The service did not respond to the startor control request in a timely fashion.

[Jukka Pakkanen]

> Chiesa Stefano wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> Maybe it's not a new issue, but...
>>
>> I have a Windows 2003 SP2 with a 9.4.2 release that worked fine for
>> years.
>> Today I wanted to upgrade my release to 9.6.
>> I installed it but when I try to start the service the system says:
>>
>> Event Type: Error
>> Event Source: Service Control Manager
>> Event Category: None
>> Event ID: 7000
>> Date: 1/8/2009
>> Time: 1:45:55 PM
>> User: N/A
>> Computer: S-MI-DNS
>> Description:
>> The ISC BIND service failed to start due to the following error:
>> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
>> fashion.
>>
>> No other messages in Event Viewer. I reinstalled the 9.4.2 version and
>> everything returned to work...
>> Does someone know why (and the solution)?
>
> Run named from the command line: named -g
> and see what the output looks like. It sounds like a configuration
> problem but it's hard to tell.

When I upgraded 9.5.1 -> 9.6 I manually had to add user rights to the named 
directory, even they were there earlier.