[python-win32] Issues with service startup

[Stan]

Has anyone dealt with Python based Windows Services not starting properly
at system boot?  They start immediately after boot, but not at boot.
 Attempting to use various dependencies to make it start up later in the
process hasn't seemed to help.

I have to separate codebases that exhibit this issue, their commonality is
they both connect to a PostgreSQL database on the machine, and use
multiprocessing and threading.

I don't have the issue narrowed down to a test case that exhibits the
issue, but it occurs on some systems every single time, and on others only
intermittently.

For one of the two, delaying at service startup (sleep...) before importing
wmi and pythoncom libraries seemed to cause it to stop failing at startup.
 The other does not seem to use wmi/pythoncom directly.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7009
Date: 10/5/2013
Time: 2:35:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: WINDOWSTEST1
Description:
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the MyTestApp1 service to connect.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 10/5/2013
Time: 2:35:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: WINDOWSTEST1
Description:
The MyTestApp1 service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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