Re: Service not starting: Error 1053

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Frank Featherlight <dirtydude@gmail.com> writes:
>>> while reading your thread two things come to mind, I have installed:
>>> Registry Mechanic ( http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic )
>>> Tune-Up Utilities ( http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities )
>>> Any of these two might cause the problem aswell in your opinion?
>>
>> Damifino, I'm not a Windows person.  But I'd suggest methodically
>> removing each and every bit of non-default software you've got,
>> to see if you can find one that causes the failure.  We know that
>> the failure does not occur on stock Windows or with most popular
>> add-ons, so unusual add-ons deserve a close look.
> 
> I wonder if it would help to reserve the address space for the shared
> memory block earlier. We could pass the address and size of the shared
> memory block as extra arguments to the backend, and reserve it before
> doing anything else. There's even a function called VirtualAllocEx, that
> postmaster could call right after CreateProcess to reserve the address
> space on behalf of the child process.
> 
> Of course, none of this helps if the culprit is a DLL or a 3rd party
> program that allocates the adress space immediately at CreateProcess.

AFAIK all the cases where we *have* identified the culprit (which has
been antivirus or firewall), this is exactly what it was doing...

//Magnus