Startup Problems

[kenkendk]

@xblitz

really? I uptade to current beta from the previous beta and I don’t uninstal the windows service. The only trouble for me was the reconfiguring of duplicati.gui.trayicon in order to read the randomly generated password from db.

It is supposed to work the same, but there were some reports of minor changes to the executable install path, some permission stuff, etc.

The intention is that everything works the same, but if there are issues, they should be fixed by uninstall/install.

@ts678

Here’s what I think is the change since 2.0.8.1. That SERVER wasn’t present in 2.0.8.1, I believe:

Yes, that was added to support running the agent with the same WindowsServer.exe. No arguments will default back to running as in 2.0.8.1 (which should work).

@ts678

To clarify (or correct), I think the “order of arguments” is the Server arguments, not Service config.

Yes, correct. This change was needed because the agent uses a modern commandline parser, which requires the arguments to be before the options:

Duplicati.Agent.exe --example=1 run #does not work
Duplicati.Agent.exe run --example=1 #works

Previously, Duplicati.WindowsService.exe would prepend --ping-pong-keepalive=true causing the agent to fail with a parsing error. The update now appends the argument to make it run correctly.

@ts678

Throwing caution to the wind, I tried a service start anyway, and (maybe not surprisingly) got

The tool Duplicati.WindowsService.exe is the same binary that is used to install/uninstall the service for both the Server and Agent, so you can ask it to install it, but since theDuplicati.Agent.exe file is missing, this will not work.

It would be a bit easier to understand if Duplicati.WindowsService.exe would check what is installed and change the options it reports based on that.