March 6, 2006 at 6:16 am
Hi
I wanted to install SQL Server 2005 enterprise edition with all its components on a single Windows 2003 Server instance (it's a virtual server). All components were installed sucessfully, excepting the client components. On every attempt to install those components I receive the following message from the setup routine:
"There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. You may review the setup logs and/or click the help button for more information."
Disk space should be ok (2.5 GB are available). Has anybody a solution for that?
Thanks
March 7, 2006 at 8:42 am
Take a look at the log file that contains more details of the failure. To figure out the correct log file start with %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\log\summary.txt. In this file it should identify which component failed with a pointer to the log file. Open the log file, the full path and the name will be in the summary.txt file, in notepad or your favorite text editor. Search for "Value 3" (this is the generic return code from Windows Installer which denotes a failure). Reading a few lines before and after the "Value 3" entry should give you come clue as to why the installation failed.
The other log file to look at is: %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\log\files\*_core(local).log. Open the latest one in Notepad and go to the end. It should yield some clue as to why it couldn't install.
Good luck.
Cheers,
Dan
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