On my Windows 7 x64 SP1 box I already have installed the following:
- Office 2010 x64
- Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2005 Express / .net 3.5 SP1
- Visual Studio 2010 SP1 / .net 4 SP1 / MVC 3 tools
I then chose to install 2008 R2 Enterprise as an unnamed (default) new instance. I added all features, except full-text search and (DTS) bacwards compatibility tools. The system requirements test indicated everything was ready. However, the entire installation failed within a couple minutes. The only thing that installed successfully was the documentation.
For the installation, I had chosen mixed authentication and Latin1_General_100_BIN2 collation for the engine and SSAS. I used network and local service accounts for the installed services.
My summary.txt file contained:
Exit code (Decimal): -2068643839
Exit facility code: 1203
Exit error code: 1
Unlike examples of log output I've seen online, my summary file did not indicate any sub-log file to find additional error information within. Following advice from akb article, I searched for "bucket," "exception" and "error:" in all .\setup bootstrap\log\*.txt files as such:
findstr -i -s -m error: *.txt
That search found the following:
Detail.txt: Slp: Error: Action "Install_sqlncli_Cpu64_Action" failed during execution.
Detail_ComponentUpdate.txt: Slp: Error: Action "PreMsiTimingConfigAction" failed during execution.
Detail_ComponentUpdate.txt: Slp: Error: Action "PostMsiTimingConfigAction" failed during execution.
When I do the same search, but for "exception," I find numerous messages like these:
Detail.txt: Slp: Unable to mark feature SQL_Engine_Core_Inst as failed due to exception
At first I thought the problem might be with my installation media. So I switched from a burned DVD, to using "Daemon Tools" to connect directly to the ISO on disk. Didn't make any difference - the result and errors were the same.
What might be the problem?
-Brent Arias