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icon5.gif   Problems with Version 2.9.0 Service did not start, posted by Michael Dannmeyer on Wed Dec 7 14:18:41 2011 

Hello,

I tried to update our ELOG installation 2.7.8 to 2.9.0. If I try to start the service i get the error:

 

Error 193: %1 is not a valid win32 application.

I uninstalled the old version an installed the new one.

Do you have any Idea? The OS is windows 2000 Server.

Best regards

Michael

 

 

Could not start the elogd service on local Computer

    icon2.gif   Re: Problems with Version 2.9.0 Service did not start, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Dec 14 10:18:37 2011 

Michael Dannmeyer wrote:

Hello,

I tried to update our ELOG installation 2.7.8 to 2.9.0. If I try to start the service i get the error:

 

Error 193: %1 is not a valid win32 application.

I uninstalled the old version an installed the new one.

Do you have any Idea? The OS is windows 2000 Server.

Best regards

Michael

 

 

Could not start the elogd service on local Computer

Can you start elogd.exe manually in a DOS box? If you get the same error there, the download file might be corrupted and you should try to re-load it again.

 

Best regards,

Stefan

    icon2.gif   Re: Problems with Version 2.9.0 Service did not start, posted by Grant Jeffcote on Sat Dec 17 17:20:05 2011 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Michael Dannmeyer wrote:

Hello,

I tried to update our ELOG installation 2.7.8 to 2.9.0. If I try to start the service i get the error:

 

Error 193: %1 is not a valid win32 application.

I uninstalled the old version an installed the new one.

Do you have any Idea? The OS is windows 2000 Server.

Best regards

Michael

 

 

Could not start the elogd service on local Computer

Can you start elogd.exe manually in a DOS box? If you get the same error there, the download file might be corrupted and you should try to re-load it again.

 

Best regards,

Stefan

Michael,

I had this problem with the service/elogd.exe not starting on the later versions of ELog and with Stefan's help we tracked it down to some missing Microsoft C runtime library files.
In my case it was a fresh install of Win2k3.

Try installing one the following and see if it helps (mine was solved with the middle option).

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3387
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5582
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5555

Regards

Grant

    icon2.gif   Re: Problems with Version 2.9.0 Service did not start, posted by Michael Dannmeyer on Fri Dec 23 14:31:27 2011 

Grant Jeffcote wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Michael Dannmeyer wrote:

Hello,

I tried to update our ELOG installation 2.7.8 to 2.9.0. If I try to start the service i get the error:

 

Error 193: %1 is not a valid win32 application.

I uninstalled the old version an installed the new one.

Do you have any Idea? The OS is windows 2000 Server.

Best regards

Michael

 

 

Could not start the elogd service on local Computer

Can you start elogd.exe manually in a DOS box? If you get the same error there, the download file might be corrupted and you should try to re-load it again.

 

Best regards,

Stefan

Michael,

I had this problem with the service/elogd.exe not starting on the later versions of ELog and with Stefan's help we tracked it down to some missing Microsoft C runtime library files.
In my case it was a fresh install of Win2k3.

Try installing one the following and see if it helps (mine was solved with the middle option).

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3387
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5582
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5555

Regards

Grant

 Thanks probelm is solved.

ELOG was installed at a windows 2000 Server. After Grant's Tip I moved it to W2003R2 and installed the midlle option. No it works without any problems.

Regards

Michael

icon4.gif   problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 10:07:16 2012 

 Hi,

 

we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.

Any idea?

 

thanks,

-Christian

    icon6.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 10:50:43 2012 

Christian Herzog wrote:

[...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[...]

 
Detect language » English
 
If you want to use https you should know what a certificate is.
Certificates are used to encript the data, but at the same time they are used to identify the host.
ELOG is delivered with a self generated certificate.
This can be used to encript the data, but no certification authority knows this certificate, so nobody can guaratee that you are connected to the right host.
Most browsers will warn you, that nobody did and if you don't care you need to change the security settings of you browser to accept the connection anyway.
 
The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option)
    icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 14:05:46 2012 

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Christian Herzog wrote:

[...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[...]

 
Detect language » English
 
If you want to use https you should know what a certificate is.
Certificates are used to encript the data, but at the same time they are used to identify the host.
ELOG is delivered with a self generated certificate.
This can be used to encript the data, but no certification authority knows this certificate, so nobody can guaratee that you are connected to the right host.
Most browsers will warn you, that nobody did and if you don't care you need to change the security settings of you browser to accept the connection anyway.
 
The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option)

 

we know about certificates, thank you 

The point is that it stops AFTER the point at which I tell the browser to accept the self-signed certificates. I now even got a CACert and the problem remains: FF works, Chrome and IE don't: https://phd-bkp-gw2.ethz.ch:8080/admin/

log says: TCP connection broken

 

thanks,

-Christian

    icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 14:48:36 2012 

Christian Herzog wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Christian Herzog wrote:
[...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[...]

 
Detect language » English
 
 
[...] The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option)

we know about certificates, thank you 
The point is that it stops AFTER the point at which I tell the browser to accept the self-signed certificates. I now even got a CACert and the problem remains: FF works, Chrome and IE don't: https://phd-bkp-gw2.ethz.ch:8080/admin/
log says: TCP connection broken [...]

 
Detect language » English
 
Sorry that I was mis-interpreting your question
Unfortunately I don't know what's wrong with your set-up. I can confirm that I cannot access your logbook with "konquerer", but can access it with "firefox". The "konquerer" (on Scientific Linux 5.7) just gets timed out.
But I can access other SSL/https ELOGs with the konquerer. The problem only occurs with your logbook!
Therefore I would think it is a particular problem of your installation. I have three ideas how to isolate the problem:
  • first, I would try to change to the standard port 443. Just in case it is related to some firewall, etc. problem.
  • second, I would try another operating system than Ubuntu Lucid. It should work of course with Ubuntu, but if it still doesn't work with the other operating system then many things are already ruled out.
  • third, I would try to set-up an apache webserver in front of ELOG. We have it here just for safety reasons. ELOG runs then on some special port and apache connects to it with a reverse proxy.
The latter is a little bit of work (about a day) if you never set-up apache before. Therefore I would try the other two, first.
Good luck!

 

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