IPC Service failure - again!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:41 pm
I had a problem ages ago with the IPC service failing to start, so I added bService.exe to my firewall and normal service was resumed.
I am on Windows7 SP1 and FBackup5 was working perfectly well on an earlier v5 build (don't recall the build number - may have been 482).
I have just upgraded to v5.2.663 (but for some reason the download from your update notification would not work, so I had to uninstall the old version and install v5.2.663 from scratch, then redefine the backup job).
Now I have the same IPC Service problem again - bService.exe is still allowed through the firewall, but the application will not start.
UPDATE: problem resolved. I used Revo Uninstaller to remove build 663, opened Windows Firewall and removed all FBackup entries, then installed the latest build (685). It worked. So the issue has to be to do either with build 663 specifically or with flakiness in the process you use for version-to-version updates - possibly not removing old Firewall entries.
Brian Crabtree
I am on Windows7 SP1 and FBackup5 was working perfectly well on an earlier v5 build (don't recall the build number - may have been 482).
I have just upgraded to v5.2.663 (but for some reason the download from your update notification would not work, so I had to uninstall the old version and install v5.2.663 from scratch, then redefine the backup job).
Now I have the same IPC Service problem again - bService.exe is still allowed through the firewall, but the application will not start.
UPDATE: problem resolved. I used Revo Uninstaller to remove build 663, opened Windows Firewall and removed all FBackup entries, then installed the latest build (685). It worked. So the issue has to be to do either with build 663 specifically or with flakiness in the process you use for version-to-version updates - possibly not removing old Firewall entries.
Brian Crabtree