Re: Error starting pgAgent service on Windows 2008 R2 server

Hi David,

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:03 PM, David Blaymires <
david(dot)blaymires(at)instinctsystems(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've previously installed pgAgent successfully on Windows 2008 R2 servers
> but this latest server is doing our head in! When we try to start the
> service we get an error:
>
> "Windows would not start the PostgreSQL Scheduling Agent - pgAgent service
> on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or
> control request in a timely fashion."
>
> The PostgreSQL server is a 64 bit version: Version string PostgreSQL
> 9.1.10, compiled by Visual C++ build 1500, 64-bit. We installed pgAgent
> using Application Stackbuilder.
>
> We've never seen this before and are stumped at this point. Can anyone
> point us at something to look at?
>
>
Could you share the event log details when this service launch get failed.
You can get these details from event log viewer.

Thanks,
Dinesh

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