Comments on: How to Fix Error 1055 The Service Database is locked.

By: anims

anims — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:26:39 +0000

I had the same problem and trying to use ‘sc lock’ gave me the same results as Arnaud:
C:\>sc lock
[SC] LockServiceDatabase FAILED 1055:
The service database is locked.
C:\>

A service is locking the Service Control DB. Look through the services to see what is stuck at ‘Starting’ or ‘Stopping’. My remedy was go into Safe Mode and to set all those services to Manual. The server came back up and was working fine. I then uninstalled the application associated with those services, reboot, and reinstalled the app. We are good to go now.

By: eugen

eugen — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:43:32 +0000

i have the same problem and i have fixed just by restart my comp good look

By: binay

binay — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:08:39 +0000

Sorry no prompt solution yet

By: jj09

jj09 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:32:43 +0000

Hi
after follwing the intructions above I get the error message below. I am using windows 7. do you have any suggestions? thanks in advance

C:\>sc lock
[SC] OpenSCManager FAILED 5:

Access is denied

By: Fabiano

Fabiano — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:06:15 +0000

The correct command is:
C:\>sc lock u

then, if possible, the system will ask you to press letter ‘u’ on
your keyboard to confirm that you want to unlock the services database
but it’s possible to receive the message

[SC] LockServiceDatabase FAILED 1055:
The service database is locked.

in this case you can just wait and retry.
If the problem persists you have to try identifying the
service that locks tha database in one of this 2 ways:

1) Examine system event logs for errors (database locked ..)
2) Set all unnecessary services to start “Manual” (do this
editing the registry), reboot and, if the problem does’nt happens,
try re-enabling services one by one to locate which one is causing
the problem.

Hope this helps.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:32:42 +0000

I have the same issue with Arnaud. Isn’t there any fix for this?
It would be much appreciated.

By: Arnaud

Arnaud — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:15:36 +0000

I get the same result as Chenai, typing sc lock only gives me the information that the database service is locked, it does not give me a prompt to unlock it.

C:\>sc lock
[SC] LockServiceDatabase FAILED 1055:
The service database is locked.
C:\>

By: anebg

anebg — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:58:53 +0000

Bruno,
I was hoping that the Output display would give away any misconceptions regarding the quotes. I guess If that didn’t do it, your comment will.
Thanks for visiting!

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:58:41 +0000

Did u write “u” with quotes? Don’t do that…

By: nipponzen

nipponzen — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:07:15 +0000

Did you type on the CMD window “sc lock” first?
After typing sc lock and pressing enter, then you type ‘u’ and press enter, then the database should be unlocked.
Hope this helps.