Service stays in 'Starting' state - Sharepoint

Have you tried an iisreset /restart
?

You could also try to restart the machine.

Is there any info in the logs?

/Daniel Bugday

"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7856BBA8-0E9D-4627-B98B-0F8B1F348973@microsoft.com...
>I have both a front-end and application server running MOSS. WSS Web
> application has been running only on front-end server, and now have a
> handful
> of web applications set up.
>
> I started the WSS Web Application (from Services on Server) on the
> application server in order to test a function. The status has remained
> at
> 'Starting' for a day now. All the websites (except for the SSP Admin
> site)
> have copied over in IIS. I did see a problem where some of the IIS sites
> did
> not start immediately, and manually doing so generated a "too many
> listening
> ports" error, but I corrected this by adding the MaxEndPoints to the
> registry.
>
> Any ideas on how I can correct this?
>
> Thanks,

Tried iisreset, restart machine, and no, I have found nothing significant in
the logs, not yet at least.

"Daniel Bugday" wrote:

> Have you tried an iisreset /restart
> ?
>
> You could also try to restart the machine.
>
> Is there any info in the logs?
>
> /Daniel Bugday
>
> "David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7856BBA8-0E9D-4627-B98B-0F8B1F348973@microsoft.com...
> >I have both a front-end and application server running MOSS. WSS Web
> > application has been running only on front-end server, and now have a
> > handful
> > of web applications set up.
> >
> > I started the WSS Web Application (from Services on Server) on the
> > application server in order to test a function. The status has remained
> > at
> > 'Starting' for a day now. All the websites (except for the SSP Admin
> > site)
> > have copied over in IIS. I did see a problem where some of the IIS sites
> > did
> > not start immediately, and manually doing so generated a "too many
> > listening
> > ports" error, but I corrected this by adding the MaxEndPoints to the
> > registry.
> >
> > Any ideas on how I can correct this?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>