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Mark.Gregory
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April 6, 2009
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Vista SP1 - CF Service will not start

  • April 6, 2009
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Running Vista Business. Life was good, I was productive! (CF 8 btw).

After installing Vista SP1, CF service will not start. Digging a little deeper, turns out JRUN can't fire off "coldfusion", one of the servers listed. Here is the error:

04/06 11:49:20 error Failed to create new connection

java.net.SocketException: select failed

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method)

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:384)

at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:453)

at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:421)

at jrun.jms.core.kernel.mipc.MultiplexConnectionServer.run(MultiplexConnectionServer.java:154)

Some digging turned up the possiblity that the jndi.properties file isn't being read. Changed permissions on it to let everyone in. Heck, you guys can probably get at it right now form where you are its so open!
More digging, turns out Windows Firewall like to block port 2930, which is apparently used for internal communication with jndi settings or some such. Opened that up. Found evidence of further internal communication on port 900, opened that up to.
Found this very useful and a bit scary info about missing DLLs and so forth:
Found reference to the updated Vista TCP/IP stack being a culprit in some cases, which often seemed to come down to, get this, a new host file entry for localhost: ::1  localhost. Commented that out, still no joy.
Tried reinstalling. Still no go.
Pretty much exhausted all possibilities I was able to think of or find info about.
Any ideas or similar experiences? Or, failing that, the address of a tall building to jump off? Thanks!

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    Mark.GregoryAuthor
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    April 7, 2009

    Ah, good call. I poked around the logs for a bit. There are a few places where CF failed to start, but that was about it. Was hoping to see some port choking or a network driver failing or something. Got me kind of excited at the prospect of a fix, but no joy still.

    Ken_Ford_-_ACP-QFo4AB
    Ken_Ford_-_ACP-QFo4AB
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2009

    have you thought about uninstalling ColdFusion and reinstalling it.

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    Mark.GregoryAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 7, 2009

    Yes,thanks, have reinstalled twice. About to reinstall, running the install package as admin.

    Charlie Arehart
    Community Expert
    Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 6, 2009

    @original_somedude, I don't quite know why you're having the hassles you are. I run Vista and CF8 and didn't have any of the problems you describe. I also don't recall jumping through any hoops to get it running. I also updated to SP1 months ago, again with no drama at all.

    Have you looked in the Windows Event viewer to see if perhaps there's more diagnostic info there?

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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