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May 29, 2014
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CF11 services won't restart

  • May 29, 2014
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PLEASE NOTE: the fix for this issue is now in all updates for CF11.  If you are experiencing the same problems identified in this thread, you no longer need to contact Adobe to receive the hotfix.  Simply install any of the updates from within CF Administrator and the hotfix will be automatically included.  You may need to start ColdFusion from the command prompt to get into the CF Adminstrator; but once you have successfully entered the Administrator and installed the update, you should be able to close the command prompt and restart the ColdFusion service successfully. --Carl Von Stetten, Moderator


I have 2 Windows Server 2012r2 boxes that I'm setting up. One is an RDS machine for some Devs to log onto and they other one will be a Production server for running scheduled tasks (separate from our main production server). The issue I've run into is that for some reason Coldfusion11 will no longer restart. If I restart the Server it is fine, but a restart after that it just stalls. I've checked all the logs I can and non show an error except for a Windows Event error that says:

The description for Event ID 261 from source ColdFusion 11 Application Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

ColdFusion 11 Application Server

240

C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\bin\coldfusionsvc.exe

ColdFusion 11 Application Server

the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

And another that says:

The description for Event ID 263 from source ColdFusion 11 Application Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

ColdFusion 11 Application Server

6652

the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

Note that while the Event IDs are consistant on each respective server, they are different between the 2 servers.

I even tried a reinstall on our RDS machine and during the re-install it wouldn't even start up the service during the install. I had to restart the server to get it to start.

I have nothing installed on the Utilities server and the only thing on the RDS is CF11, CFEclipse, CFBuilder, and SSMS 2014.

Any help would be appreciated as I am under a deadline to get these two servers up and running. I can get any log details needed to get this resolved.

Thanks,

Frank

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Correct answer Sir_Meili

Has anyone else seen or tried this? We don't have a test server to try it on...

Based on the information provided by the you and other users, we have created a hotfix. Please try the following steps:-

  1. 1.       Download and rename the hf1100-3776060.123 to hf1100-3776060.jar
  2. 2.       Place this hotfix at the location -- C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\updates
  3. 3.       Restart the ColdFusion 11 Application Service.

Please let us know if this solves your issue.

Note:- The hotfix is not QE verified. Please confirm the usage in development, before moving into production machine.


CFHackJob wrote:

Has anyone else seen or tried this? We don't have a test server to try it on...

Based on the information provided by the you and other users, we have created a hotfix. Please try the following steps:-

  1. 1.       Download and rename the hf1100-3776060.123 to hf1100-3776060.jar (This fix was included in CF11 update 1, so if you are on update 1 and above, this hotfix is not required )
  2. 2.       Place this hotfix at the location -- C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\updates
  3. 3.       Restart the ColdFusion 11 Application Service.

Please let us know if this solves your issue.

Note:- The hotfix is not QE verified. Please confirm the usage in development, before moving into production machine.

I installed the update, remove the firewall rule blocking the IP and the services now start up normally.

So, all seems like it is fixed.

Thanks Anit_Kumar!

14 replies

Participating Frequently
June 6, 2014

When we run the coldfusion.exe from the command prompt we can now access the administrator and our site, however as soon as the command prompt is closed the service is no longer available, so this is obviously not a solution

Anit_Kumar
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 6, 2014

Command prompt, when closed, will terminate the coldfusion process, hence terminating the ColdFusion application.

NicholasDee wrote:

When we run the coldfusion.exe from the command prompt we can now access the administrator and our site, however as soon as the command prompt is closed the service is no longer available, so this is obviously not a solution

This is indeed not a solution. We shared it as a workaround.

We tested this with a fresh installation of Windows server 2012 R2. We are unable to replicate the issue. This looks like a machine/server specific issue. I have asked for some more logs from sirmeili, but haven't heard back.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

Participating Frequently
June 6, 2014

Anit

We have done some further investigation on Server 2008 R2 and found that if we disable the network card we are able to start the CFApplication service. Once the service is running we are able to re enable the netork card.

Tim

Participating Frequently
June 6, 2014

Our CF11 Standard (v11,0,0,289822) install on Win2003 R2 just began exhibiting this issue this morning. It was a brand new install, not an upgrade) on May 12th and has been running great. We haven't done any Windows or ColdFusion updates since the original install. We ran coldfusion.exe from the command line as suggested by Anit_Kumar, and 5-10 minutes after being hung up on PDFgServlet, similar to Sir_MeiliSir_Meili scenario, services were available - although the the CF Application Service still showed a stopped status in the Services control panel. Curious what triggered this as no changes have been made to the system.

Participating Frequently
June 6, 2014

I'll confirm the original problem, We have windows 2008 R2 service pack 1.  It hangs for 10 plus minutes at

PDFg service manager http://127.0.0.1:8987/PDFgServlet/ registered. and will not start.

Braniac
May 29, 2014

Hi Frank,

Maybe after server uptime memory is allocated and CF can't get sufficient memory for the heap to start.

Perhaps log details in ColdFusion11\cfusion\logs for coldfusion-out and coldfusion-error for that date time will be interesting when CF does not start after some server uptime.

You could also try start CF from administrator CMD prompt. The CMD window may provide an error that could be useful for debugging:
- cd \ColdFusion11\cfusion\bin
- cfstart.bat


HTH, Carl.

Sir_MeiliAuthor
Inspiring
May 29, 2014

Thanks for the suggestions Carl. The issue is that the service never starts fully and it never shows an error or reason in the coldfusion logs (that i can see). A re-install is no good. I am about to try CF10 in hopes that I can at least get that going as this is a time sensative issue. I've been installing CF since MS and I have never had this issue.

Here is the coldfusion-out log for one of the servers:

May 28, 2014 18:09:02 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting license...

May 28, 2014 18:09:03 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Evaluation Edition enabled

May 28, 2014 18:09:03 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting crypto...

May 28, 2014 18:09:04 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 6.0 Crypto-J 6.0, EMC Corporation. JsafeJCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, ECDSA, Diffie-Hellman, ECDH, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512, FIPS186PRNG, ECDRBG, HMACDRBG, SHA1PRNG, MD5PRNG; RFC 3394, RFC 5649 AES Key Wrap; X.509 CertificateFactory; PKCS12, PKCS15 KeyStore; X.509V1, PKIX, PKIX-SuiteB, PKIX-SuiteBTLS CertPathValidators; X.509V1, PKIX, PKIX-SuiteB, PKIX-SuiteBTLS CertPathBuilders; LDAP, Collection CertStores)

May 28, 2014 18:09:04 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting security...

May 28, 2014 18:09:04 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting scheduler...

May 28, 2014 18:09:04 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting WatchService...

May 28, 2014 18:09:04 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting debugging...

May 28, 2014 18:09:04 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting sql...

May 28, 2014 18:09:05 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Pool Manager Started

May 28, 2014 18:09:05 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting mail...

May 28, 2014 18:09:05 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting runtime...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - CORBA Configuration not enabled

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting cron...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting registry...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting client...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting xmlrpc...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting jaxrs...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting graphing...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting solr...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting archive...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting document...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting eventgateway...

May 28, 2014 18:09:07 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Event Gateway Disabled.

May 28, 2014 18:09:08 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting FlexAssembler...

May 28, 2014 18:09:08 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting .NET...

May 28, 2014 18:09:08 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting Monitoring...

May 28, 2014 18:09:08 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting Monitoring Server on port 5500.

May 28, 2014 18:09:08 PM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - Starting WebSocket...

May 28, 2014 18:09:33 PM Information [Thread-11] - PDFg service manager http://127.0.0.1:8987/PDFgServlet/ registered.

Here is the Coldfusion-error file:

May 28, 2014 6:05:07 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init

INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib;C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\jintegra\bin;C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\jintegra\bin\international;C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\oosdk\classes\win

May 28, 2014 6:05:07 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8014"]

May 28, 2014 6:05:08 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal

INFO: Starting service Catalina

May 28, 2014 6:05:08 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.52

May 28, 2014 6:05:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services

May 28, 2014 6:05:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 24.51-b03

May 28, 2014 6:08:57 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init

INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib;C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\jintegra\bin;C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\jintegra\bin\international;C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\oosdk\classes\win

May 28, 2014 6:08:57 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8014"]

May 28, 2014 6:08:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal

INFO: Starting service Catalina

May 28, 2014 6:08:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.52

May 28, 2014 6:09:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services

May 28, 2014 6:09:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 24.51-b03

I did also try starting it manually, it gets to the point where it says the same as the last line in the coldfusion-out log but just hangs there and never does anything. I can't access CF or the Administrator.

The most confusing part is that I know for a fact that 1 of the servers had no changes to it between it being operational and not operational. It is also intesting to note that on one of the servers a restart will allow the CF services to all start as the other one will not let the services start at all.

I will note that both of these are running IIS8.5.

Anit_Kumar
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 29, 2014

Yes, I can access the CF Administrator now. The Task manager shows this:

My concern now is that it takes 13-15 minutes for CF to start up, much longer than the "service" will let it (it seems to time out when starting it as a service).


It seems like it, took 12 minutes approx from registering PDFgServlet till start.

Sir_Meili wrote:

May 29, 2014 08:32:52 AM Information [Thread-10] - PDFg service manager http://127.0.0.1:8987/PDFgServlet/ registered.

May 29, 2014 08:45:13 AM Information [localhost-startStop-1] - ColdFusion started

Usually, it should not take that long. To manage the windows service in this scenario, try the option in screenshot below:-