stunnel troubleshooting: - StartService: error 1053

[Jason Poriss]

I'm installing stunnel for a second time. I'm using it for Blue Iris on a Windows 10 Pro machine. I'm using stunnel 5.67 on Win64. GUI shows "Configuration successful". I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling numerous times.

When I run stunnel Service Start I receive a dialog box that says:

stunnel 5.67 on Win64 (not configured)
StartService: error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

Can anyone help?

 

[Boyturtle]

Did you get this to work? I'm having the same problem, but I'm on a Windows 11 device

 

[Jason Poriss]

Yes. But unfortunately I can’t give you the steps to resolve, which is why I didn’t close the loop here.
It ultimately resolved itself. The only thing I remember doing is using talk manager to force quit. It seemed to work after that. Sorry I can’t offer more.

 

[Boyturtle]

Thanks for getting back

 

[slidermike]

Thanks for the tip about using "task manager" to force stop the service. Once I did, I was able to start the service without issue.