Just to follow up, I have confirmed that an older 8.4-based tclsvc 
basekit does still function correctly.  I can provide this for you as a 
work-around to move forward, if 8.4 is OK.  Have to figure out the 8.5 
issues still though.

Jeff

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> > On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Chuck Ferril wrote:
> >> I'm still not able to get this working...
> >>
> >> I get the same results when I created my own test service with  
> >> TclApp (the service starts, then immediately stops).
>  
>  Just a quick update that I am not able to repro any issues when using 
>  the unwrapped tclsvc84.exe (but you do need ActiveTcl 8.4 installed for 
>  that), but I do see the issues you have below with an 8.5-based 
>  base-tclsvc basekit.  I'm looking into this now (it may be 8.4 vs. 8.5 
>  changes).
>  
>  Jeff
>  
> >> On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Chuck Ferril wrote:
> >>
> >>> No effect. Same error message in the event log.
> >>>
> >>> --First:
> >>>
> >>> The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( AAA ) cannot be  
> >>> found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry  
> >>> information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote  
> >>> computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve  
> >>> this description; see Help and Support for details. The following  
> >>> information is part of the event: AAA, Service Starting.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --Immediately followed by:
> >>>
> >>> The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( AAA ) cannot be  
> >>> found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry  
> >>> information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote  
> >>> computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve  
> >>> this description; see Help and Support for details. The following  
> >>> information is part of the event: AAA, Service Shutting down.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <screen-capture.png>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Chuck
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm not aware of the description being required for a service to  
> >>>> run properly ... in order to get that issue out of the way though,  
> >>>> you can access the service in the registry at:
> >>>>
> >>>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AAA
> >>>>
> >>>> and then create key name "Description" of type REG_SZ.  IOW, with  
> >>>> Tcl:
> >>>>
> >>>> package require registry
> >>>> set key {HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AAA}
> >>>> set value "Description"
> >>>> set data "This is a description"
> >>>> registry set $key $value $data
> >>>>
> >>>> and try again and see if that changes anything.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeff

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