Note that this is for a Dev server. Not vital, but super annoying. I found my machine had been restarted due to Lumension. This is normal. However, since I imported a .car file from the old CF8 server directly to this CF9 Dev server I had not rebooted or restared the CF9 service.
I found these error messages in the Event viewer:
The ColdFusion 9 Application Server service could not be started. Check the server "coldfusion" log files for more information.
and
The ColdFusion 9 Application Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified..
I checked the JRUN logs and cannot find any logs pertaining to anything matching today's timestamp nor anything out of place that appears to be the cause. Nothing in CF logs either, mostly because CF never got up to running status so no logs could be generated.
I thought I found the culprit in this post, http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:61223 ... but the fix had no effect. I didn't find anything in my search using grep outside of the JRUN temp folder which a single .xml file had an invalid Coldfusion8 path. Fixing the path or deleting the offending temp files didn't cure the problem.
I've also tried moving all the root files that was moved into the /ColdFusion9/wwwwroot/ directory out and trying to start the service, but same error and failure occurs.
I have not tried reinstalling. I did install the CF9.0.1 update and it was working just dandy until this restart. There are no other computer problems experienced that I can tell and not other errors were found in the event viewer.