Safenode Manager: services will not start on Windows 11

[rreive]

When Activating the MS Win11 Service Window via PowerShell with Admin rights mode

The Service Window opens
Shows Services Local
Left hand panel shows in description panel:
safenode
Start the service

                                  Right hand panel shows
                                      Name               Description              Status          Startup Type    Logon As
                                  safenode1               <nothing>          <nothing>    Automatic       Local System

Where the view presents the admin with information which indicates
the safenode 1 is
NOT running as there is a blank , no information in status

As such any PowerShell Admin logging into Win11 MS Service Manager will incorrectly

attempt to Start the service (safenode ) showing a blank in the status column

by clicking a local mouse focus on the highlighted "Start" the service in the left hand panel

As the Powershell Administrator

   which has the Win11 MS Service Manager application produce  

         first a 

                       Startup progress bar 

        then return 

                     an error msg window  saying 

                          "Windows could not start the safenode<n>  service on the Local Computer 

                            Error 1503  The service did not respond to the control request in a timely fashion

Screen snapshots of the process described above are attached

Suggested Remedies:

1. Add a more through description to the left hand panel of what the servicenode is:
   ie- "Autonomi servicenode disk sharing service"

2. Given the servicenode was started from PowerShell

        The  MS Win11 Service Manager should be signalled to set the status to 'running'
   

3. Change the description title in the left hand panel, when a safenode start has been made from the PowerShell in Admin mode to reflect both:

   a: the "Automatic" setup of the service to say

                 **"Restart"**  the  "Autonomi safenode service" 
   

   and

4. Change the Status Column from a blank to "running"

To accurately reflect the state of the safenode in the MS Win11 after the safenode has been launched at the cli in the PowerShell with Adminstrator rights.

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[jacderida]

Hi @rreive

Thanks for the feedback.

Just to let you know, this is related to the node manager, not to safeup.

I suspect the services will not start because you do not have winsw available. To use safenode-manager on Windows, you need to download WinSW, then rename the binary to winsw.exe and put it in a location that is available on the Path variable.

I have already raised issue maidsafe/safeup#26 to deal with supplying WinSW via safeup.

Please try to use the node manager after making WinSW available. For the services you have already added, you will need to remove them first, using safenode-manager remove --service-name safenode1 and so on.

You should use safenode-manager to start the services rather than doing it manually in the Windows service manager.

I'll keep the issue open until you confirm you can get the services to start.

[rreive]

ok downloaded to safe folder in path variable, ran it, works.. thanks
safenode16 12D3KooWRdiEviafn15GwA9zxjhhopkCJYPZZigF1PgP9jzuj4JH RUNNING 0
safenode17 12D3KooWMViumA5isLQjvAmKFuoTG9gW2jKCMgT7oi2d7axvNuRJ RUNNING 0
safenode18 12D3KooWM8yHFEPwXcBE6PfFfUaW4NhNMX6aB1V125GvqAazXvBd RUNNING 0
safenode19 12D3KooWCnuh7SuB5z2Hh68q6oQ4QJunYxajBsk1ZJK31Dwxj7Kh RUNNING 0
safenode20 12D3KooWDnTBbrk9H5rXrWSUetNrMJrT9KzGb9RMnbQ1NjtfKbCn RUNNING 0

[jacderida]

OK great. Glad you got it working! I will close the issue now.