4.8-20201013-windowsservercore-1909 image doesn't start

[dasiths]

The W3SVC doesn't start on the 4.8-windowsservercore-1909 image

I'm trying to run the image using docker run but keep running in to this error.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker run mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-1909                                           
 Service 'w3svc' has been stopped

ERROR: Failed to start or query status of service 'w3svc' error [80004005]

 Service 'w3svc' has been stopped

When defining the port it fails with a slightly different error

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker run mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-1909 -p:80:8080                                
 Service 'w3svc' has been stopped

APPCMD failed with error code 4312

Failed to update IIS configuration

I also tried to create my own dockerfile from this image. In the build steps I tried calling

Start-Service W3SVC

which failed with

Service 'World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC)' cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'.

Then I tried doing this

docker run -it --rm --entrypoint powershell mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-1909

and when inside the container ran following commands to start w3svc with no success as well.

PS C:\> start-service w3svc
start-service : Service 'World Wide Web Publishing Service (w3svc)' cannot be started due to the following error:
Cannot start service w3svc on computer '.'.
At line:1 char:1
+ start-service w3svc
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service],
   ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotStartService,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand

PS C:\> net start w3svc
System error 1068 has occurred.

The dependency service or group failed to start.

Steps to Reproduce

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-1909
docker run mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-1909

Other Information

Output of docker version

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker version                                                                                                            Client: Docker Engine - Enterprise
 Version:           19.03.5
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.12.12
 Git commit:        2ee0c57608
 Built:             11/13/2019 08:00:16
 OS/Arch:           windows/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Enterprise
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.5
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:       go1.12.12
  Git commit:       2ee0c57608
  Built:            11/13/2019 07:58:51
  OS/Arch:          windows/amd64
  Experimental:     false

Output of docker info

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker info 
 Client:
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  cluster: Manage Docker clusters (Docker Inc., v1.2.0)

Server:
 Containers: 10
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 10
 Images: 275
 Server Version: 19.03.5
 Storage Driver: windowsfilter
  Windows:
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: ics internal l2bridge l2tunnel nat null overlay private transparent
  Log: awslogs etwlogs fluentd gcplogs gelf json-file local logentries splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Default Isolation: process
 Kernel Version: 10.0 18363 (18362.1.amd64fre.19h1_release.190318-1202)
 Operating System: Windows Server Datacenter Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.836)
 OSType: windows
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 4
 Total Memory: 16GiB
 Name: IP-0A9D15BF
 ID: 3KVH:ECXF:6ALL:XNFM:CDKW:APWQ:RJW3:RVQE:3VP2:MS4N:JH76:RG3A
 Docker Root Dir: C:\ProgramData\docker
 Debug Mode: false
 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
 Labels:
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

[MichaelSimons]

@HongGit - Can you help out with this issue?

[dasiths]

it's possibly related to microsoft/IIS.ServiceMonitor#34

[dasiths]

I've just checked the same image on a Windows 10 pro machine with 2004 kernel version and it works. So it's tied to the Windows Data Centre version I tried before.

Here is the environment it fails in. It's running in an AWS EC2 instance.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
10     0      18363  0


PS C:\Users\Administrator> (Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem).Caption
Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter
PS C:\Users\Administrator> systeminfo /fo csv | ConvertFrom-Csv | select OS*, System*, Hotfix* | Format-List


OS Name             : Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter
OS Version          : 10.0.18363 N/A Build 18363
OS Manufacturer     : Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration    : Standalone Server
OS Build Type       : Multiprocessor Free
System Boot Time    : 11/9/2020, 10:00:54 AM
System Manufacturer : Xen
System Model        : HVM domU
System Type         : x64-based PC
System Directory    : C:\Windows\system32
System Locale       : en-us;English (United States)
Hotfix(s)           : 10 Hotfix(s) Installed.,[01]: KB4552931,[02]: KB4497165,[03]: KB4513661,[04]: KB4517245,[05]:
                      KB4521863,[06]: KB4524569,[07]: KB4528759,[08]: KB4541338,[09]: KB4552152,[10]: KB4556799

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker run -it --rm --entrypoint powershell mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-1909
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PS C:\> get-iissite

Name             ID   State      Physical Path                  Bindings
----             --   -----      -------------                  --------
Default Web Site 1    Stopped    %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot  http *:80:


PS C:\> start-iissite "default web site"
start-iissite : The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is stopped. Websites cannot be started unless the World
Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) is running.
At line:1 char:1
+ start-iissite "default web site"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-IISSite], ServerManagerException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManagerException,Microsoft.IIS.Powershell.Commands.St
   artIISSiteCommand

PS C:\> net start w3svc
System error 1068 has occurred.

The dependency service or group failed to start.

[MichaelSimons]

@dasiths - did you try the workaround mentioned here?

@shirhatti, I'm transferring this to IIS as this seems related to microsoft/IIS.ServiceMonitor#34.

[MichaelSimons]

Issue moved to microsoft/IIS.ServiceMonitor #75 via ZenHub

[dasiths]

I tried running w3svc directly and still have this issue. I ran the failing test on an EC2 instance and not on ECS or EKS. Hence I don't think it's related to Service Monitor.