After windows 8 restarts, Coldfusion 10 application service won't start back up

[Sir_Meili]

I saw that CF10 installer now supports windows8, so I reinstalled my computer and installed coldfusion 10. After installing, everything worked just fine and CF ran without issue. After restarting the computer, however, the appication server service refuses to start up. I've reinstalled CF twice with the same results. Here is the error in event viewer:

"The ColdFusion 10 Application Server service terminated with the following service-specific error:

The operation completed successfully."

and this is the error in the popup that you get when you try and start it up:

"Windows could not start the Coldfusion 10 Application Server on Local computer. For more information, rreview the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to the service-specific error code 0."

Any help would be appreciated. I'd hate to have to completely reinstall back to Win7.

[carl type3]

Suggest check \ColdFusion10\cfusion\logs coldfusion-error.log coldfusion-out.log for warning or error details.

HTH, Carl.

[Sir_Meili]

Carl, the last error in that log is related to a bad sql server login when I was setting up a datasource. There is nothing related to it not starting. I checked all the logs I could find for CF and none gave me any indication they would point to why. Thanks for the suggestion though. I was hopeful that it would give me some clue.

[Piyush Nayak]

Alternatively, you may try starting CF from the command prompt and look out for the error in the output. Launch the windows command console with admin privileges. Change directory to <root>\ColdFusion10\cfusion\bin and enter coldfusion.exe start -console

[Sir_Meili]

Piyush,

I ran it and this is what I got:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.adobe.coldfusion.launcher.Launcher

        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)

        at com.adobe.coldfusion.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:70)

        at com.adobe.coldfusion.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:161)

I tried to search for this error, but didn't find anything related to it. Any idea what this could mean?

[carl type3]

sounds like Java is not working. How about this?

CD \CF10\jre\bin>java -version

EG:
java version "1.6.0_29"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 20.4-b02, mixed mode)

for initial CF10 installer that required mandatory update or java version "1.7.0_15" etc for new CF10 installer that does not need mandatory update.

HTH again, Carl.

[Sir_Meili]

Hey Carl, again, thanks for the suggestion. When I check Java's version I get the followin:

java version "1.7.0_15"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_15-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

I seem to have the correct version.

[Piyush Nayak]

Hi, can you pls. share the contents of your jvm.config file. location : <root>\ColdFusion10\cfusion\bin

[Sir_Meili · Accepted solution]

Ok...thanks Piyush!!!

I was looking at the file and it had:

application.home=C:/ColdFusion10/MenuEase

which I think was set from when I deployed my backup from win7. I must've had instances set up and the project I was working on was called MenuEase. I changed it to:

application.home=C:/ColdFusion10/cfusion and it now works!

Thanks everyone for the help

[Piyush Nayak]

Good to hear that. Thanks for sharing.

[carl type3]

Nice : - )