# Server Restarts - Continua not available until service restart

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**Created:** [October 12, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/server-restarts-continua-not-available-until-service-restart/4879 "2012-10-12T12:28:39Z")
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### Author: ![skermajo](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@skermajo](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/skermajo)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/server-restarts-continua-not-available-until-service-restart/4879/1 "2012-10-12T12:28:39Z")

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Hi

Since installing Continua, I've only rebooted my server twice. In both instances now, Continua hasn't worked until I've restarted the 'Continua UI Application Service'. There is a Windows application log information message from 'ContinuaCI' that reads the following:

Service started successfully.

However when attempting to access Continua from a browser it just spins its wheels on a blank page (I haven't gone trawling IIS logs yet).&nbsp;Before I've manually restarted the service, this error shows up in the Windows application log for every repository I've got:

Repository @link(2002, bfae3b4c-83c5-4b10-ba45-33547552d837)[Phoenix6] cannot be initialised: Value cannot be null.  
Parameter name: path1

The source for the errors is identified as 'Continua'.

Is it possible I've missed a configuration step somewhere? We're running Continua 64bit on Windows 2008 R2, with Postgres as installed by the Continua installer. All our repos are Mercurial sourced over https.

Thanks

Joel

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### Author: ![vinnie](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/71e660/32.png) [@vinnie](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/vinnie)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/server-restarts-continua-not-available-until-service-restart/4879/2 "2012-10-12T02:40:30Z")

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I’ve finally tracked this one down… ContinuaCI Service has a dependency on the Windows Management Instrumentation service. The easiest way to do this, is to wait for the next build we release and install it. Then follow these steps:

1. Stop the ContinuaCI Service. Either from the Services UI or running **_net stop ContinuaCI_** on the command line.
2. Open up a command prompt at the&nbsp;ContinuaCI Server install location, default is:&nbsp; **C:\Program Files\VSoft Technologies\ContinuaCI\Server**
3. Run the command&nbsp;_Continua.Server.Service.exe -uninstall_
4. Run the command&nbsp; **Continua.Server.Service.exe -install -user=\<domain\username\> -password=\<your\_password\>\</your\_password\>\</domain\username\>**
5. Start the ContinuaCI Service. Either from the Services UI or running **&nbsp;_net start ContinuaCI_** &nbsp;on the command line.

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### Author: ![skermajo](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@skermajo](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/skermajo)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/server-restarts-continua-not-available-until-service-restart/4879/3 "2012-10-12T03:56:04Z")

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Thanks Vinnie - I'll wait for the next build then follow the steps