What causes "Role Instances are taking longer than expected" error with Azure SDK 2.4?

Question

I am getting the infamous "Role Instances are taking longer than expected" error when trying to start my Azure project with a single Worker Role. It used to work before, it started failing without any apparent reasons between two debug sessions.

I tried to create a brand new solution with a new Azure project and a default Worker Role, that also fails to start.

I have found numerous other SO questions and forum posts discussing this topic, but most of them are outdated and none of their suggestions worked.

I found no relevant message in the Event Logs, the only error message I found was in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\dftmp\EmulatorRuntimeLogs\ErrorRuntime.log, it contains lots of lines like this:

[00006892:00014472, 2014/10/16, 18:40:45.247, ERROR] Failed to create FSRM quota manager instance.

The output for the role in the Compute Emulator displays the following log indefinitely:

[fabric] Role Instance: deployment24(4).MySolution.MyProject.MySolution.MyProject.0
[fabric] Role state Busy
[fabric] Role state Aborted
[fabric] Role state Busy
[fabric] Role state Aborted
[fabric] Role state Busy
[fabric] Role state Aborted
[fabric] Role state Busy
...

Do you have any suggestions what can cause this error with the latest 2.4 version of the Azure SDK?

Answer 1

I solved it by removing the Startup Tasks from ServiceDefinition.csdef

Answer 2

Change the taskType="background" in ServiceDefinition.csdef file

<Task taskType="background" executionContext="elevated" commandLine="sample.cmd">