WildFly 10.1 Service is not starting

Question

When starting the WildFly service it fails with the error message:

The data area passed to a system call is too small.

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This is how I installed the service:

I have copied C:\wildfly-10.1.0.Final\docs\contrib\scripts\service to C:\wildfly-10.1.0.Final\bin\service.

Similar to how it was working with WildFly 8, I have installed the services with the following command:

service install /jbossuser admin /jbosspass mypassword

When starting the service using service start, the command fails with the following error message:

Using the X86-32bit version of prunsrv

The data area passed to a system call is too small.
Failed to start serviceService Wildfly starting...
ERROR: Failed to load service Wildfly configuration

Scheld

Answer 1

Just remove the quotes around description value:

set DESCRIPTION=WildFly Application Server

See: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-1719

Nereidanereids

Answer 2

Delete the value of description in service.bat instead of "Wildfly Application Server"

**rem defaults
set SHORTNAME=Wildfly
set DISPLAYNAME=WildFly
rem NO quotes around the description here !
set DESCRIPTION="WildFly Application Server"
set CONTROLLER=localhost:9990
set DC_HOST=master
set IS_DOMAIN=false
set LOGLEVEL=INFO
set LOGPATH=
set JBOSSUSER=
set JBOSSPASS=
set SERVICE_USER=
set SERVICE_PASS=
set STARTUP_MODE=manual
set ISDEBUG=
set CONFIG=
set HOSTCONFIG=host.xml
set BASE=**

It worked for me, i think you can use a description without spaces, but i didn't try.

Rayford

Answer 3

I observed similar error on Wildfly 11.0.0.Final. But problem was in DISPLAYNAME option. I changed it from default and I had white spaces there and it caused same error.

I changed(Default name is just Wildfly):
set DISPLAYNAME=WildFly Application Server
to:
set DISPLAYNAME="WildFly Application Server"

And it worked. Its weird that quotes in DESCRIPTION cause error and lack of quotes in DISPLAYNAME also causes error(simple name without white spaces don't need quotes).

Kora