From b4a7bb09697e7d98c2ccef71cf69eb7c5bd4af97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jun Sugimoto <47271927+sugymt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 13:20:04 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Retries to lock Services database on Windows (#2880)

---
 .../NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs             | 20 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs
index 7ebc2a158..173e0bbe6 100644
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs
@@ -514,9 +514,25 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                 failureActions.Add(new FailureAction(RecoverAction.Restart, 60000));
 
                 // Lock the Service Database
-                svcLock = LockServiceDatabase(scmHndl);
-                if (svcLock.ToInt64() <= 0)
+                int svcLockRetries = 10;
+                int svcLockRetryTimeout = 5000;
+                while (true)
                 {
+                    svcLock = LockServiceDatabase(scmHndl);
+                    if (svcLock.ToInt64() > 0)
+                    {
+                        break;
+                    }
+
+                    _term.WriteLine("Retrying Lock Service Database...");
+
+                    svcLockRetries--;
+                    if (svcLockRetries > 0)
+                    {
+                        Thread.Sleep(svcLockRetryTimeout);
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
                     throw new Exception("Failed to Lock Service Database for Write");
                 }