MySQL Bugs: #8798: Installation failed "Cannot Create Windows Service for MySQL. Error: 0".

Bug #8798	Installation failed "Cannot Create Windows Service for MySQL. Error: 0".
Submitted:	25 Feb 2005 0:15	Modified:	25 Feb 2005 3:29
Reporter:	Tom Ngi	Email Updates:
Status:	Can't repeat	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.1.10	OS:	Windows (Windows 2000 SP 4)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Initially I installed Mysql server 4.1.10 successfully. But when I tried to install Mysql Administrator 1.0.19 or mysql Query Browser 1.1.5, both failed during installation with a message to the effect of not being able to write to the registry. To get around this, I tried uninstalling all 3 products, then reinstalling the server from scratch. The installation proceeds all the way to the last step where it fails upon trying to start the MySQL service with the error "Cannot create Windows service for MySQL. Error: 0".

I have already tried to remove entries with "mysql" in my registry to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated!

How to repeat:
See description.

You said:

"Initially I installed Mysql server 4.1.10 successfully"

and then due to MySQL Administrator and Query Browser failed to
write to the registry you edited the registry. Now we can't to guess
in which condition you left the Windows registry. Is not recommended
to edit the registry.

Try to verify via Control Panel if the service of MySQL already exists
and it is stopped. When the service is stopped you can remove the
service using the server itself for that, issuing the below command
from a DOS prompt:

mysqld-nt --remove  

or

mysqld-nt --remove service_name.

Then remove the MySQL stuff  and try to install again.

Oh dude, you MADE MY DAY! I was STRUGGLING with installing 5.1 on a box that I had a 4.x something. I did what one would expect to do by first uninstalling the old server and then tried to install 5.1. I kept getting hung up on the "Start service". I tried all kinds of combination of things and nothing worked until I bumped into this post and ran that magical command:

mysqld -nt --remove

I firmly believe that this would have not impact but I did it anyway and then removed and reinstalled the software and EVERYTHING WORKED PERFECTLY...

THANK YOU THANK YOU

I would make a nasty comment to why I had to do this but I have been nothing short of AMAZED at how much MySQL gives away for free and this being the only thing not intuitive to deal with that I have encountered and I have been using the heck out of their free product line...

Anyway thanks a million,
-Steve Tarlton

it doesn't work on me, i installed "mysql-5.5.12-win32.msi".
any way to fix it?

it doesn't work on me, i installed "mysql-5.5.12-win32.msi".
any way to fix it?
help me please....