Windows – The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

serviceswindows-server-2003windows-services

I've searched but didn't find appropriate answer, so i create my own question.
We have a few Windows 2003 SP2 servers, each running .NET services launched from both local machine and windows share.
But already second time we get error: Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion
when trying to restart services on one specific server, second works as it should be.
Share with executable is available, opens normally, have right permissions. So everything looks the same on both servers, but one gives that errors to all services we launch.
If we reboot that server- it's working ok for a few days or a week, and then it starts again.

Anyone have suggestions what can that be?

Best Answer

There is a hot fix available form Microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886695

This problem occurs because the Iisutil.dll DLL adds an access control entry (ACE) to the desktop security descriptor for the services that run in the system context. The ACE lets the Microsoft Internet Information Services Worker Process Group (IIS_WPG) account log on to the system service desktop. However, if another process sets the desktop security descriptor for the services that run in the system context to a null value, Iisutil.dll changes the discretionary access control list (DACL). Iisutil.dll changes the DACL list so that any service that uses the noninteractive local system account cannot log on.

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