Just for clarification, did you uninstall McAfee intrusion detection, install SP3, then reinstall McAfee?

Oh, one more thing, we have not reinstalled McAfee yet.

Yes, we found that we had to uninstall the McAfee Intrusion detection. Though... our sys admins had some issues (don't know all the details) with the uninstall. Somehow...

I do recall reading a thread on moving the main mdf files. I did have to move some of my other database files from their original location, but not...

Little update. At our site they are deploying the MacAfee intrusion detection software on our servers. An initiative called HBSS (forget what it stands for). So far...

I'm in the same boat as you sounds like. I have some more experienced folks looking at it right now. Guess what? They got the same errors...

Well, the database patch fails, but the other components update ok. Much like yours, it looks like the patch tries to start the database service, but fails. Yet,...

Interesting that your install continues. Mine just chokes and stops, though it does continue after the database upgrade files and installs the rest of the components successfully. We...

Ok, here's some of the logs, after several attempts. You can see where it has loaded the other components and even the database component, but fails on it's install....

I have the same exact problem, it goes through the installation of sp3 and says the sql server patch failed, but the rest are ok. I can start the...

I'm having the same problems!! Anybody else seen this?

Win2003 r2

SQL Server 2005 sp2 with update 9.

using my domain account with sysadmin privs or even SA, cat the error above.