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

[Danny Mayer]

Jukka Pakkanen wrote:
>> 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.

Can you include details of what appears to have changed?

Danny