I un-installed the service and rebooted. Then I reinstalled it as an administrator from the command line, and started it via Tomcat6w.exe as an administrator (without any modifications to the Java tab). The service started without issue. Thanks everyone for your help!
Richard On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com > wrote: > 2010/11/19 Richard Pless <rfpl...@gmail.com>: > > I have removed one of the Tomcat directories and I'm down to just > > c:\oc\tomcat. I've also used "Java -version" to confirm that I am using > the > > 64 bit version of Java 1.6.0_22. I've opened Tomcatw.exe and specified > the > > JVM as 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll' rather > > than the default but it still won't start. > > > > c:\oc\tomcat\bin>service.bat install > Installing the service 'Tomcat6' ... > Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\oc\tomcat" > Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\oc\tomcat" > Using JAVA_HOME: "c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22" > Using JVM: "c:\Program > Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll" > Failed installing 'Tomcat6' service > > a) You certainly need to start cmd.exe console "As Administrator". (I > see you did that). > b) You cannot install the service twice with the same name. (The > second and later attempts will fail with the same generic message as > above). Try "service.bat remove" first. Verify that it is not listed > as a service (in the Control Panel of Windows). (I had several times > when uninstall did not complete until I rebooted). > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Richard "L'audace, l'audace. Toujours l'audace!" ============================================================
