Error 1067 while stopping the windows service

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_{Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:55 AM}

Hi,

I'm getting an error while stopping the windows service developed in C#. It says:

Could not stop the Service1 service on local computer

Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.

But still the service is getting stopped.

Can anybody suggest how it can be avoided?

Thanks

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_{Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:16 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Don't do this. When Service Controller see the process return non-zero return code, it'll treat that as signal of something abnormal happened.

Also, you're encouraged to do proper cleanup (e.g.: stop all the timers,  send abort to all worker threads and wait them to return, etc.) instead of relying .NET runtime to take care of these for you, especially if your service somehow used some unmanaged resource that the runtime has no idea of.

_{Wednesday, September 7, 2011 4:19 AM ✅Answered}

I agree with what @Cheong00 has said. You should avoid using Environment.Exit(-1) call in your OnStop() method. BTW, what is the reason behind calling it?--Abhimanyu
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_{Tuesday, September 6, 2011 8:29 AM}

There may be exception thrown during service stop. Show us your OnStop() method. 

Also, you may want to use a try...catch... block to log what happened during service stop.

_{Tuesday, September 6, 2011 9:03 AM}

Hi

Did you went through EventViewer for error information?

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_{Tuesday, September 6, 2011 9:27 AM}

OnStop() Method has only one statement

Environment

.Exit(-1);

and I have placed it in try-catch block.

But still it is throwing error in a message box when I manually stop the service in the services.msc window.

_{Tuesday, September 6, 2011 9:32 AM}

EventViewer has errors logged while stopping the service. It says:

The Service1 service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s).

Source being Service Control Manager.