MSDE installs almost 90% and then uninstalls itself

Hello,
I am having a problem with installing MSDE on one of the Win2K client
machines. The MSDE setup runs to about 90% installation (progress bar shows
at least) and then seems like focus goes away from the setup progress bar and
then progress bar shows uninstalling (it does not say its uninstalling but
the progress bar starts going left instead of going right) and then setup
exits without any prompt.
For the records we are using MSDE released on August 5, 2000.
I can not ask much questions and will have a one time shot more to resolve
this issue on Thursday. Any help will be apreciated.
Regards,
Anis
hi Anis,
"Anis Siddiqy" <Anis Siddiqy@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel
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> Hello,
> I am having a problem with installing MSDE on one of the Win2K client
> machines. The MSDE setup runs to about 90% installation (progress bar
> shows at least) and then seems like focus goes away from the setup
> progress bar and then progress bar shows uninstalling (it does not
> say its uninstalling but the progress bar starts going left instead
> of going right) and then setup exits without any prompt.
> For the records we are using MSDE released on August 5, 2000.
> I can not ask much questions and will have a one time shot more to
> resolve this issue on Thursday. Any help will be apreciated.
> Regards,
> Anis
please add the
/L*v "c:\MsdeLog.txt"
command line parameter to your setup.exe call
this will enable verbose logging of the installation process (about 2mb)
where you can search for
RETURN VALUE 3
entries that define error conditions... about 10/15 lines after or before
that entries some (sometime a little cryptic) explanation of the problem is
provided..
anyway, before doing, please verify that File and Printer Sharing is set and
that the Server service is running
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.9.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.55.1
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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MSDE installation rolls back automatically

When i try to install MSDE 1.0 .. it runs the install .. and thenautomatically uninstalls again...

I turned on the Verbose logging.. and found out the InstallSQLAgentSecurity is failing...

How can I get past this error? and what is causing it to fail? I am running the install as a local administrator on windows 2003.

ThanksAny help would be appreciated..|||There should be some other messages in the MSI log. Also, is there anything in the Windows event logs?

Don|||the event log only says that MSDE failed to install... the SQLSERVER Security agent is the first error in the log .... I will check the log again.. and post all the errors that find in it.. i can also post the file online.. if it will help...|||I can't say for sure that it'll help, but it might provide some clues.

Don