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Nguyễn Xuân Hoàng
Nguyễn Xuân Hoàng

Reputation: 615

How to start SymmetricDS service?

I opened "Services" and tried starting "SymmetricDS" service.

Then the system show dialog with below content:

"Windows could not start the symmetricds service on Local Computer.

Error 2 the system cannot find the file specified."

Then I opened "Registry Editor" and saw ImagePath like that:

"java" -Djava.io.tmpdir="C:\Program Files (x86)\Webstercare\MedSig 4\Tools\synchronisation\SymmetricDS\tmp" -jar "C:\Program Files (x86)\Webstercare\MedSig 4\Tools\synchronisation\SymmetricDS\lib\symmetric-wrapper.jar" init "C:\Program Files (x86)\Webstercare\MedSig 4\Tools\synchronisation\SymmetricDS\conf\sym_service.conf"

Please help me to start this service!

Thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2459

Answers (3)

jiel.anilam
jiel.anilam

Reputation: 41

If you can install the service but can't start it:

PS <C:\Program Files\SymmDS\bin>> ./sym_service.bat start
Waiting for server to start
Error 19: StartService returned error 2: The system cannot find the file 
specified.
Native error 19

Another Symptom: Trying to start it via the task managers service tab gives you:

"The operation could not be completed. Access is denied."

Change wrapper.java.command to the full path to your java.exe in conf\sym_service.conf.

For example mine was:

# Java Runtime Executable
  wrapper.java.command=java

And I changed it to:

# Java Runtime Executable
wrapper.java.command=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_151\bin\java.exe

If you can't install the service:

Error: "the system cannot find the path specified" when you try to install the service. It's probably a bad or out of date path for your environment variable for java.

Open powershell and type in:

java -version

if it doesn't give you any information, or gives the same error then follow the steps below to fix it.

Go to:

  Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> System
  Advanced system settings -> Advanced Tab -> Environment Variables

For JAVA_HOME put in the path to the folder for java (not the bin or exe). 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_151

For Path append the path to the bin folder for java (not exe). Make sure you add a semicolon to the end of the previous path. It's used as a delimiter.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_151\bin\

Upvotes: 2

Mark Michalek
Mark Michalek

Reputation: 116

It's possible your system can't find the "java" command on your system path, in which case you'd need to reinstall Java 8 or add the Java bin directory to your system PATH.

Are you able to run java from the command line?

Upvotes: 4

nr99
nr99

Reputation: 46

Did you try starting the service as described in the docs? http://www.symmetricds.org/doc/3.7/html/user-guide.html Section 2.2.

Upvotes: 1

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