Installing SFU 3.5

superdave

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Jan 21, 2004, 10:36:12 AM1/21/04

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I'm trying to install SFU 3.5 on a W2k SP5 and all the latest critical Windows update patches. I consistently get the following error message:

"Installation of Common Administration ui elements failed."

Then it does a rollback and ends with a message:

Installation ended prematurely because to an error.

I'm choosing standard install and local user name mapping.

I've tried the other options too and this has no effect on the outcome.

any ideas ?

Thanks in advance

Mike

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Jan 21, 2004, 8:16:10 PM1/21/04

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I know this is probably obvious, but how did you get to the point of
being able to chose a "standard install"? I just got a self-extracting
archive, which unpacked into my "Local Settings\TEMP" directory
and I've no idea what to do next!

(I've posted a similar question in its own thread, so apologies for
double posting!)

Mike

ShawnZ

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Jan 29, 2004, 1:36:13 PM1/29/04

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I'm getting the same error here. I'm installing on XP Pro SP1/ RU1. Actually, I get the same error installing either 3.0 or 3.5.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

superdave

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Jan 29, 2004, 4:16:11 PM1/29/04

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I went in to the directory where the zip was unpacked and double clicked on "setup"

I've since reinstalled W2K from scratch.

There are now files in \winnt\system32\wbem folder that were not there before, which I had thought may be part of the problem compiling MOFs during the install.

I tried reinstalling SFU 3.5 both before and after reapplying all the windows patches. I still get the exact same error messages and it rolls out yet again...

Could this be why it's now free ? :-)

Thanks for the reply

Amit Kumar Ghosh [MSFT]

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Feb 3, 2004, 7:51:08 AM2/3/04

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Here is the solution for the problem :

net stop winmgmt /y
rename %windir%\system32\wbem\repository %windir%\system32\wbem\repository.old
net start winmgmt
mofcomp.exe namespce.mof

Explanation :
Sometimes this happens when repository upgrade didn’t succeed.
And after deleting the repository when again some mof file gets
compiled the repository will be rebuilt freshly taking away the
problem.

Thanks,
Amit

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superdave

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Feb 3, 2004, 9:16:16 AM2/3/04

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Thanks for the reply.

I tried the solution.

When I type net stop winmgmt /y I get:

System error 1060 has occurred Specified service does not exist as an installed service.

The rename command complained about syntax. I renamed it by going into my computer...

The repository folder did exist and was empty.

When I did the net start winmgmt I get Service name is invalid...

Thanks again...

ShawnZ

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Feb 4, 2004, 11:41:07 AM2/4/04

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Thanks! That fixed it for me.

Initially, I was getting the same errors as SuperDave when doing this fix. I corrected it by starting the following services:
Error Reporting
Event Log
Help and Support
RPC Locator
System Event notification
Windows Installer
Windows MAnagement Instrumentation

I don't which of those took care of it, but I was able to do this afterwards:

c:\>net stop winmgmt /y
The Windows Management Instrumentation service is stopping.
The Windows Management Instrumentation service was stopped successfully.

c:\>rename c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WBEM\Repository Repository.old

c:\>net start winmgmt
The Windows Management Instrumentation service is starting.
The Windows Management Instrumentation service was started successfully.

c:\>mofcomp.exe C:\MySFU3.5\manage\namespce.mof
Microsoft (R) 32-bit MOF Compiler Version 5.1.2600.1106
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp. 1997-2001. All rights reserved.
Parsing MOF file: C:\MySFU3.5\manage\namespce.mof
MOF file has been successfully parsed
Storing data in the repository...
Done!

superdave

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Feb 9, 2004, 1:36:08 PM2/9/04

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Hi again..

Thanks to everyone for the info.. Glad to see Shawnz had some success...

I think it was winmgmt.

Of the services Shawnz mentioned, I started all the services except Windows Management Instrumentation which is not present in the list to be started..

I still have the same problem.

I installed W2k with everything selected for install, all options I could find..

So it seems no matter what I do winmgmt service is not available for me to activate.

Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

Looks like winmgmt is dumping core somewhere along the way..

I have some log files and their entries from today which may be useful:

mofcomp:

(Mon Feb 09 11:03:33 2004) : Parsing MOF file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\ieinfo5.mof
(Mon Feb 09 11:03:33 2004) : An error occurred while opening the namespace for object 1 defined on lines 7 - 10:
(Mon Feb 09 11:03:33 2004) : Error Number: 0x80070424, Facility: Win32, Description: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) :
(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) : Parsing MOF file: C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\namespce.mof
(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) : An error occurred while opening the namespace for object 1 defined on lines 7 - 10:
(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) : Error Number: 0x80070424, Facility: Win32, Description: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) : Compiler returned error 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:46:23 2004) : File '*.mof' not found!
(Mon Feb 09 11:46:29 2004) : File '*.mof' not found!
(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) :
(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) : Parsing MOF file: wmi.mof
(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) : An error occurred while opening the namespace for object 1 defined on lines 14 - 17:
(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) : Error Number: 0x80070424, Facility: Win32, Description: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) : Compiler returned error 0x80070424

wbemcore:

(Fri Jan 23 15:40:00 2004) : Core physically unloaded!
(Mon Feb 09 11:24:49 2004) : Core physically unloaded!

WinMgmt:
(Mon Feb 09 11:24:48 2004) :
WINMGMT couldnt create the sync objects(Mon Feb 09 11:24:48 2004) :
Bailing out due to Initilaization failure(Mon Feb 09 11:24:49 2004) : core is being shut down by WinMgmt.exe, it returned 0x0

setup:

================================================
Setup failed with the following message:

The following WMI CORE MOF file(s) failed to load...
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\CimWin32.MOF
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\RegEvent.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\NTEvt.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\WMI.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\secrcw32.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\dsprov.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\msi.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\wbemperf.mof
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\CimWin32.MFL
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\msi.mfl
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\NTEvt.mfl
C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\secrcw32.mfl

wbemprox:

ConnectViaDCOM, CoCreateInstanceEx resulted in hr = 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:01:04 2004) :
Error loading module {F7CE2E13-8C90-11D1-9E7B-00C04FC324A8}, return code is 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:03:33 2004) :
ConnectViaDCOM, CoCreateInstanceEx resulted in hr = 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:03:33 2004) :
Error loading module {F7CE2E13-8C90-11D1-9E7B-00C04FC324A8}, return code is 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) :
ConnectViaDCOM, CoCreateInstanceEx resulted in hr = 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:11:40 2004) :
Error loading module {F7CE2E13-8C90-11D1-9E7B-00C04FC324A8}, return code is 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:23:23 2004) :
ConnectViaDCOM, CoCreateInstanceEx resulted in hr = 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:23:23 2004) :
Error loading module {F7CE2E13-8C90-11D1-9E7B-00C04FC324A8}, return code is 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) :
ConnectViaDCOM, CoCreateInstanceEx resulted in hr = 0x80070424(Mon Feb 09 11:46:42 2004) :
Error loading module {F7CE2E13-8C90-11D1-9E7B-00C04FC324A8}, return code is 0x80070424

Gaurav Daga [MS]

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Feb 9, 2004, 6:37:36 PM2/9/04

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That is weird - you reinstalled the OS and still do not see winmgmt as an
installed service. This problem is out of the scope of this newsgroup - you
may want to try
microsoft.public.wbem (or some other WMI related newsgroup) or log a case
with Microsoft Product Support.

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superdave

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Feb 10, 2004, 12:56:08 PM2/10/04

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Found the problem.

Seems that our raid controller (or our variant at least) was not supported by WMI.

Switched to regular IDE and reinstalled W2K, service now appears...

Thanks everyone..