[Buildbot-devel] Windows 7 Build Slave as a Service

[Mark Roddy]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Neal Chant <neal at ethermonkey.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 15:48 -0400, Mark Roddy wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Has anyone been able to get a build slave running on Windows 7 as a
>> service?   I've had it running on Windows XP for a while now without a
>> problem.  Under Windows 7, if I manually start it from the commandline
>> everything is fine, and the service seems to install fine via
>> buildbot_service.py.  However, the service will not start.
>
> Yup, Win7 running as service.
> Followed this http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/RunningBuildbotOnWindows
>
>> Has anyone else seen this problems?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Check the logs (I forget which) it'll probably be the user / pw combo
> that BB is starting as, or permission for that user to run as service
> (doc above)
>
> HTH
> Neal
>
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Thanks for the help.  Stack trace in the application log showed it to
be a permission error when accessing the registry.  I must have
accidentally missed that step.

-Mark