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

[Jukka Pakkanen]

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?

The assigned user doesn't have any rights in the named directory, also
happens often when installing to a clean machine. I don't know if the
install process is even supposed to grant rights but at least it often
(always?) is like that. This time it looks like the 9.6.0 install process
even removed the rights from the assigned user :o

I'm not 100% sure of that, but at least after the update there were no any
rights for the user, and it only started to working after manually adding
them (full rights for the named dir & subdirs).