The UnrealIRCd service hung on starting.

[axewater]

Hi

I just installed Unreal Ircd 3.2 +SSL on Windows 2003 server as a service. The first few times it didn't start, I had a clear error in the service.log
Fixed all of the errors and now the service log shows :

* Loading IRCd configuration ..
* Configuration loaded without any problems ..

But the service is not starting

My system event log is showing :

The UnrealIRCd service hung on starting.
(this has event id 7022)

I have tried rebooting the server but now the service is just in a continues state of 'starting' ... I cannot find any other errors in the eventlogs.

Any ideas ? Any help is much appreciated.

[barbapapa]

I'm having the exact same issue on an windows xp system. Service log says:

* Loading IRCd configuration ..
* Configuration loaded without any problems ..

but the wircd.exe process doesn't seem to fully start, and i can't connect mirc clients to it. I can't seem to find any other hints as to what is going wrong. I've tried changing all kinds of things in the conf to no avail.

[Stealth]

Check both ircd.log and service.log. If nothing is found in those, follow the directions here in my FAQ Unreal won't start!

[barbapapa]

After following Stealth's directions and uninstalling service and running wircd.exe manually, it seems the process was hung because it was waiting for ssl passphrase dialog, which never popped up during service start. So if you're using ssl, then you need to start it manually first, enter your passphrase, then install the service and run it that way. Thanks so much for the help Stealth!!

[barbapapa]

Actually it seems you have to re-enter the passphrase on every startup, so installing as a service doesn't seem to work well. Is there a way around this at all?

[Stealth]

You need to remove the passphrase from the SSL key. You can remove the passphrase from the key by following these directions: http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#key-removepass