MSDE Install Hangs for hours

Our application uses MSDE. On one computer running Windows XP. The MSDE
intstall runs for 4+ hours and never completes.
Here are the last few lines of the msde install file- Any ideas on what
might be happening?
Starting custom action NoRebootReplace
TempFolder Property is C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\
Source Dir Property is C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\SqlSetup\Temp
NoRebootConnectRepl returned: 3010
MSI (s) (44:F4): Executing op:
ActionStart(Name=InstallSqlRedis.2D02443E_7002_4C0 B_ABC9_EAB2C064397B,,)
Action 20:37:22: InstallSqlRedis.2D02443E_7002_4C0B_ABC9_EAB2C06439 7B.
MSI (s) (44:F4): Executing op:
CustomActionSchedule(Action=InstallSqlRedis.2D0244 3E_7002_4C0B_ABC9_EAB2C064397B,ActionType=1025,Sou rce=BinaryData,Target=InstallSqlRedis,)
MSI (s) (44:F4): Creating MSIHANDLE (180) of type 790536 for thread 3572
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
TempFolder is
C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\
Loading extended custom action library
C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\sqlcax.dll
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
Starting custom action InstallSqlRedis
Executing "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\sqlredis.exe
/q:a"
Are you launching the installation from code / any other mechanism that is
waiting for setup.exe to terminate.
There is some weird issue in the MSDE install package that causes the
sqlredis action to hang if anything is waiting for the parent process to exit.
I haven't seen a good answer on why that happens.
Hope that helps
- Ross
"dramos" wrote:

> Our application uses MSDE. On one computer running Windows XP. The MSDE
> intstall runs for 4+ hours and never completes.
> Here are the last few lines of the msde install file- Any ideas on what
> might be happening?
> Starting custom action NoRebootReplace
> TempFolder Property is C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\
> Source Dir Property is C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\SqlSetup\Temp
> NoRebootConnectRepl returned: 3010
> MSI (s) (44:F4): Executing op:
> ActionStart(Name=InstallSqlRedis.2D02443E_7002_4C0 B_ABC9_EAB2C064397B,,)
> Action 20:37:22: InstallSqlRedis.2D02443E_7002_4C0B_ABC9_EAB2C06439 7B.
> MSI (s) (44:F4): Executing op:
> CustomActionSchedule(Action=InstallSqlRedis.2D0244 3E_7002_4C0B_ABC9_EAB2C064397B,ActionType=1025,Sou rce=BinaryData,Target=InstallSqlRedis,)
> MSI (s) (44:F4): Creating MSIHANDLE (180) of type 790536 for thread 3572
> SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
> Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
> TempFolder is
> C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\
> Loading extended custom action library
> C:\DOCUME~1\chittoor\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}\sqlcax.dll
> SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
> Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A}
> Starting custom action InstallSqlRedis
> Executing "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\sqlredis.exe
> /q:a"

MSDE Fails to install on Win2k Server (Application Server Mode)

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