[solved after reboot] Eddie won’t obtain elevated privilege since last windows update

[King0777 0]

I’m using the latest version of Eddie portable x64 on W10.
It stop working with the latest windows update.
Eddie UI or CLI are launched with admin privileges.
The following logs are from launching the CLI in an admin CMD.

. 2021.06.12 11:20:26 - Eddie version: 2.20.0 / windows_x64, System: Windows, Name: Windows 10 Pro, Version: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19042.0, Mono/.Net: v4.0.30319
. 2021.06.12 11:20:26 - Command line arguments (0):
. 2021.06.12 11:20:26 - Raise system privileges
F 2021.06.12 11:20:47 - Unable to obtain elevated privileges (required): Unable to start (timeout)
. 2021.06.12 11:20:47 - Shutdown in progress
. 2021.06.12 11:20:47 - Shutdown complete

Edited 06/13/2021 by dragoworld235

[deepseawhale 0]

Just wanted to chime in that I've been experiencing the same problem since updating to latest version of Eddie 2.20. Downgrading to the previous version of Eddie did not solve this issue.

I basically need to run Eddie multiple times with admin privileges for it to successfully start and kill the process when it does not. Very frustrating.

[monstrocity 37]

Check the Task Manager to see if Eddie-Service-Elevated.exe is in the Processes tab and that the Eddie Elevation Service is running in Services; start it if it has stopped.  If it's not there at all, that could be the reason, and you may have to reinstall it.

[King0777 0]

The problem solved itself after a reboot, stange.

[SpaceAttorney 0]

I'm getting the same error message when I try to run Eddie, except it says "No Socket" instead of "Timeout". The weird part to me is that my traffic has been going through the VPN server since startup, even though no related processes seem to be running. I was actually trying to run Eddie to turn it off.

 

EDIT: Reboot solved the problem for me as well. *shrug*

Edited 06/25/2021 by SpaceAttorney
Adding add'l info