Installed and configured a new 8.5.1 server into our existing domain… upon server reboot, the server started up as a Windows service just great. Getting used to using the Java console, but thats another story!
However, a day later, I installed Traveler 8.5.1 on this server. Now, when the Windows server is restarted, the Domino server will not start as a service. I can manually launch the server executable and the server runs just fine.
The event log on the server is giving me no information other than that the service starts and the service stops. The log on the Domino server does not show any activity when the attempts occur.
I have reinstalled Domino 8.5.1 on top of the existing implementation, but that had no effect.
The notes.ini helped one of my servers but on another, I had to define the fully-qualified host name in the hosts file to resolve to the internal IP. I think a local DNS alias would have worked too. The server was resolving its own host name to the publicly-defined IP and that’s what was preventing it from starting.
Subject: Try stripping the parameters from the service entry first
You could check the parameters on the Service entry and remove them. Then you can check them to see which one is causing the crash when you add them back in, because manually you have no parameters; unless you pass them on the command line with nserver.exe.
I had this with the Server Console on my 8.5.0 server, reinstalling did not work but reconfiguring did. If you have the wrong IP address in the Java console settings, either in the server document or notes.ini, then it will crash the server in exactly this way.
Worth a look anyway but start by stripping the parameters from the service entry in the registry.
Subject: Will not start as a service on Server 2008
Any luck with getting this resolved? I just had the same problem. Started up ok at first, copied the data in, and it won’t run any more as a service. Just starts and stops. I have another similar box that works just fine - go figure. I’m on Serer 2008 R2 64, Domino 32, 8.5.1FP1, fresh install (tried both with and without the backed up data.) Argh.
Hi there, sorry for the late response. I hope you will be fine now with Domino. But for the record our problem and solution: Same problem, Windows 2008 64 bit, Domino 8.5.1, service does not start. Can only run as application, but this was not an option.After a long discussion with IBM (John Paganetti; thanks John!) we found that there could be a conflict with the controller IP port.
I know this is dated, but I had a domino server setup on Amazon cloud and was working fine, then it just stopped starting after restarting the server. Windows 2012 64Bit. Domino 8.5.3 FP6. This worked. I’ll get it upgraded to Domino 9.0.1 soon, but for now, this worked.
Thank you very much! In my case the Domino server that had run fine as a service for 3 years on 64 bit Win 2008 server suddendy did not start as a service any more. When I added those two lines to NOTES.INI it started again!
Did anybody get this working ? I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and starting the server via the executable works fine but starting as a service doesn’t work at all. If I try to manually start the service, it will start and stop with no error information and nothing in the Event Log.
I simply added this line to my notes.ini:TCPIP_ControllerTcpIpAddress=127.0.0.1:2050
I didn’t want to create a new problem so I didn’t tie it to the actual IP of the system. This is just the controller so I don’t think it matter so long as the IP is valid and 127.0.0.1 is always valid on my systems.
…I don’t remember exactly how I got it working. (I hate when people don’t respond though.) I have vague recollections of working with this and finding something somewhere that finally got it going.
thank you very much !