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rteeter
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April 25, 2010
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CF8 not starting

  • April 25, 2010
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I have ColdFusion 8 running on my home system (Windows Vista, IIS).  Just recently, it no longer starts on boot up.  I try manually starting it and I get this:

Windows could not start ColdFusion 8 Application server on local computer.  For more information, review the System Event Log.  If this is a

non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 2.

Based on some suggestions in this forum, I archived my log files in /logs/ and /runtime/logs/ and tried starting the service again.  I have a new coldfusion-out.log with this at the top:

Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 108673), coldfusion server
04/24 20:23:55 error Unable to export ClusterableService JRunRMIBroker
[1]java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: listen failed

Thank you for any suggestions.

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    Fernis
    Fernis
    Inspiring
    April 25, 2010

    Have you recently made changes to your Windows firewall or some antivirus's firewall? Or could you have installed a service which uses a port which ColdFusion needs?

    -Fernis

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    rteeterAuthor
    Participant
    April 25, 2010

    Possibly.  McAfee said it needed to be updated, so I did that.  How can I find out what port it uses?  And what port does ColdFusion use?

    Fernis
    Fernis
    Inspiring
    April 26, 2010

    Hmm, wasn't mcafee just the anti-virus in the recent news, famous for crippling windows XP?

    Anyway, the problem is probably unrelated to that issue, and I don't know exactly what could cause the error message you got.

    Can you try disabling mcafee network threat protection (if there's such) and see if ColdFusion starts then? If it makes a difference, try adding an exception for jrun.exe to allow all traffic.

    I'm not familiar with mcafee, and definitely more an application architect than a ColdFusion systems guru, so these might be bad guesses, so let's hope we get replies from wiser guys here...

    -Fernis

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