Progress on the SQL 2008 CTP6 Installation Problems

You may recall my previous posts on my trouble with SQL 2008 CTP6.  I’ve made some progress on fixing my machine that I thought I’d share with you.  I now get past the following error:

D:\temp\sqlctp6\servers>setup
The following error occurred:
MsiGetProductInfo
failed to retrieve ProductVersion for package with Product Code =
‘{00E75F61-A126-4CE1-90B8-42295052F1AC}’. Error code: 1605.

I useded the SysInternals (err, Microsoft) Process Monitor Tool and watched for keys found/not found during the failed install.  This found a few keys in HKCR\Installer\UpgradeCodes that were being found early in the setup100.exe process.

(Fair notice – modifying the registry on your computer is your problem, not mine :).

So take the key:
00E75F61

Reverse it.  I think I had 615fe700, but it was late and I was tired.  It might have been 16f57e00.  Anyways, you will see some keys under HKCR\Installer\UpgradeCodes.  There are actually 2-3 places in the registry searched for each key  I’ve been killing all three of them for each key – there are about 7-10 keys.  The registry section looks like this:

The hex digits you have in the error will correspond to the right hand side of this picture.  The key I’ve been deleting is it’s parent, which is the key being opened in the “key found”/”key not found” stuff in the process monitor log.

Here’s what the log looked like for me:

136791  11:53:49.4922341
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
CloseFile             
D:\temp\sqlctp6\tools\setup\sqlrun_bids.msi               
SUCCESS             

136793  11:53:49.4923712
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
WriteFile             
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup
Bootstrap\Log\20080313_2353\WOPR_20080313_2353_Detail_ComponentUpdateSetup.txt
SUCCESS               
Offset: 7,591, Length: 62

136795  11:53:49.4956628
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegOpenKey               
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Managed\S-1-5-21-2888934283-224128331-3030229123-1000\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4         
NAME NOT FOUND         Desired Access:
Read

136796  11:53:49.4957796
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegOpenKey               
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4     
NAME NOT
FOUND               
Desired Access: Read

136797  11:53:49.4958199
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegOpenKey               
HKCR\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4
SUCCESS             
Desired Access: Read

136798  11:53:49.4958553
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegEnumValue               
HKCR\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4
SUCCESS             
Index: 0, Name: 16F57E00621A1EC4098B249205251FCA, Type: REG_SZ, Length: 2,
Data:

136799  11:53:49.4958960
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegOpenKey               
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Managed\S-1-5-21-2888934283-224128331-3030229123-1000\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4         
NAME NOT FOUND         Desired Access:
Read

136800  11:53:49.4959398
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegOpenKey               
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4     
NAME NOT
FOUND               
Desired Access: Read

136801  11:53:49.4959604
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegCloseKey               
HKCR\Installer\UpgradeCodes\87674BD65E9A5D1409951D671E37BDA4
SUCCESS             

136802  11:53:49.5146648
PM      setup100.exe   
2812      
RegOpenKey               
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Managed\S-1-5-21-2888934283-224128331-3030229123-1000\Installer\Products\16F57E00621A1EC4098B249205251FCA       
NAME NOT FOUND         Desired Access:
Read

Now the installer gets past this and tries to install the engine and then fails, but I will call this progress ;).

Notice – I had deleted all of my physical files for SQL Server from the machine, so killing the registry keys seemed like a reasonable next step.  I can’t promise you it’s a good idea since I don’t have things working yet, but I hope this helps the many of you who mailed me and found me via search engines.

Thanks,

Conor Cunningham

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