Can't start Bamboo as a Windows service

[Philip Steinebrunner]

Hi

I have installed Bambo via InstallAsAService with administrator permissions and gave the server user all the neccessary folder permissions (install and data). All worked fine but I can't start the service because it fails immediately.

bamboo.stderr.2014-03-18.txt says:

2014-03-18 09:09:48 Commons Daemon procrun stderr initialized

commons-deamon.2014-03-18.txt says:

[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [info]  [ 3708] Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.15.0 32-bit) started
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [info]  [ 3708] Running 'Bamboo' Service...
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [info]  [ 3824] Starting service...
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [error] [ 3824] %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [error] [ 3824] Failed creating java C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [error] [ 3824] %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [error] [ 3824] ServiceStart returned 1
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [error] [ 3824] %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [info]  [ 3708] Run service finished.
[2014-03-18 09:09:48] [info]  [ 3708] Commons Daemon procrun finished

Bamboo is running well when I start it via console.

Thanks for your help!

Philip

Update:

C:\Atlassian\Bamboo-5.4.1>"C:\Atlassian\Bamboo-5.4.1\bin\service.bat" install Bamboo
Installing the service 'Bamboo' ...
Using CATALINA_HOME:    "C:\Atlassian\Bamboo-5.4.1"
Using CATALINA_BASE:    "C:\Atlassian\Bamboo-5.4.1"
Using JAVA_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45"
Using JRE_HOME:         "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\jre"
Using JVM:              "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"
The service 'Bamboo' has been installed.

[Philip Steinebrunner · Accepted solution]

Ok. It works. I found this article

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASHKB/Stash+service+%2864-bit%29+fails+to+start+-+not+a+valid+Win32+application

and tried to place the tomcat7.dll.x64 and the tcnative-1.dll.x64 from an stash zip package and renamed it. These two files beeing not deployed by the Bamboo installer!!! Now the service starts up!

[Philip Steinebrunner]

This is still an issue! As Bitbucket Server does not use tomcat anymore I had to copy tomcat8.exe.x64 from an jira zip archive.

[fyndor]

I got it running. I had to alter the service installer batch script to get it to run.

In service.bat i changed line 136 to read:

set "PR_JVM=%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"

I think my JAVA_HOME, aka jdk install, is 64 bit, but my jre install is 32 bit. The odd thing is that the comment for the line i changed mentioned it was using JAVA_HOME when it was instead using the JRE_HOME variable. It seems to me either the comment in there is wrong or the line itself is wrong.

[Philip Steinebrunner]

Seems not to help in my case. %JRE_HOME% is prefilled correctly.

[fyndor]

I have the same issue