Opensearch 3.2 as Service fails to start on Windows with 1067 Error

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OpenSearch 3.2 on Windows server fails to start as Service with error 1067 Proccess terminated unexpectedly. No meaningfull details in logs.

If I start it from console, it runs OK. Opensearch 2.19.3 on same sever starts as Service like a charm.

Could please anyone help to solve the problem.

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@romanmohan What do you see in OpenSearch logs? Could you share the logs output of the faulty service?

What is the Windows version?

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Hi @pablo

opensearch-service-x64.2025-08-26.log

[2025-08-26 14:24:59] [info]  [ 2692] Starting service 'opensearch-service-x64' ...
[2025-08-26 14:24:59] [info]  [15444] Commons Daemon procrun (1.1.0.0 64-bit) started
[2025-08-26 14:24:59] [info]  [15444] Running 'opensearch-service-x64' Service...
[2025-08-26 14:24:59] [info]  [ 7352] Starting service...
[2025-08-26 14:25:00] [error] [ 2692] apxServiceControl(): dwState(4) != dwCurrentState(1); dwWin32ExitCode = 1067, dwWaitHint = 0, dwServiceSpecificExitCode = 0
[2025-08-26 14:25:00] [error] [ 2692] apxServiceControl(): returning FALSE
[2025-08-26 14:25:00] [error] [ 2692] Failed to start service 'opensearch-service-x64'
[2025-08-26 14:25:00] [info]  [ 2692] Start service finished, returning 0
[2025-08-26 14:25:00] [error] [ 2692] Commons Daemon procrun failed with exit value: 5 (Failed to start service)

opensearch-service-x64-stderr.2025-08-26.log

2025-08-26 13:44:03 Commons Daemon procrun stderr initialized
Failed to start service

Windows Server 2019 Standard

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@romanmohan Could you share command that set the service in that Windows Server?

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@pablo I use built-in tool - opensearch-service.bat install

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@romanmohan I’ve reproduced your issue in all 3.x versions. 2.19.3 was the last working version.
According to this GitHub issue, -javaagent option could cause it.

I’ve already made a comment there with my testing results.

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Hi @pablo ,

thank you for information. Hope, this will be fixed soon.

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@romanmohan I was able to start the OpenSearch service with opensearch-service.bat start on Windows Server 2019.
However, it worked when I removed Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64). This was installed as part of the VMware tools installation.

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Hi Folks, I just pulled 3.4, and I’m hitting the same error. Does anybody know any updates?

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@JeffBlumenthal The GitHub issue is still opened. You can comment there to check for any progress.

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