We have ColdFusion10 (update 17) Standard Edition installed on a Windows 2008 R2 server. It has been installed and running fine for a couple years, but in the last few weeks we have had trouble starting the service. After reboot it wouldn't start automatically or through a .bat file that checks to make sure it's started every morning. It also would time out starting from the Server Manager console. We were able to start it from the command line using net start "COLDFUSION 10 APPLICATION SERVER", but now it will not work that way either.
The logs do not appear to show anything unusual as far as I can tell. The only way we have been able to get it started is to run cfstart.bat in the cfusion\bin directory. The websites are available, but the actual service is not running (at least as far as windows monitoring is concerned).
This error is showing up in the server event log when we try to start the service:
One possibility that we have wondered about is that Microsoft .NET Framework updates could have possibly broken it. That was the only update installed before it was broken this past time. The service has taken a while to start up in the past, but never so long that it times out and we couldn't start it from the Server Manager. And we have never seen it fail to start at all multiple times in a row. To be clear, it fails EVERY time, even if you try 20 times in a row.
We are considering rebuilding the server, but I would really like to just fix this one. Who knows if it could happen again. Thanks for any feedback.