Are you running the service under the same user that you are running the command from the console as?
slide On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Roland Zwaga <ihatelively...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Slide, > > I have tried running this command from the command line: > > > java -Xrs -Xmx786m > -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "C:\Program > Files\Jenkins\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8080 > > And it works without problems, the server just starts up and everything > works fine. Its really just the windows service that all of a sudden seems > to fail to start... > > cheers, > > Roland > > > On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:46:09 UTC+2, slide wrote: >> >> Before anything else, have you tried running from the command line >> with the same command? >> >> If you want a clean JENKINS_HOME, but want to maintain you jobs, you >> can just copy the JENKINS_HOME\jobs directory to another location (or >> even better, just backup JENKINS_HOME to somewhere else) and then >> delete JENKINS_HOME and reinstall. You should be able to copy the jobs >> back over to the new JENKINS_HOME. >> >> slide -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com