RE: SP4 instalation failure

From: David Vincent (david.vincent_at_mightyoaks.com)
Date: 06/27/03

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:50:14 -0700

    I've installed sp4 on a few machines for testing and had some weirdness.

    - I've received popups at the end of the install on three machines, stating
    that something did not work correctly and asking me if I want to roll-back
    the changes made or continue, leaving my server in a semi-patched state
    (damn, I wish I had written that down...). I've both rolled back the
    changes and then reinstalled receiving the same error, and let it "finish"
    leaving me semi-patched. hfnetchk 3.86 reports everything is fine (as does
    qfecheck and windows update of course). I do notice tho that running
    qfecheck on these machines lists about 30 hotfixes, whereas running qfecheck
    on machines where sp4 installed without complaining lists only three. so
    I'm assuming the script which cleans up the add/remove programs list and
    installed hotfix list isn't running. possibly some other cleanup script
    too.

    - on my domain workstations, logging in with the domain admin aco*** ALWAYS
    gives me a "your roaming profile could not be loaded" error. logging in as
    any other user has no issues. I'm so far betting that tightvnc had the
    ntuser.dat file locked again and this is what is generating my error, but I
    haven't had time to confirm that yet or see if this occurs on a server.
    (tightvnc was responsible for the dreaded "Windows cannot unload your
    registry class file. If you have a roaming profile, your settings are not
    replicated. Contact your administrator.", it was keeping the ntuser.dat file
    open and preventing changes from being saved - thank you
    http://www.eventid.net!)

    anyone else?

    -d

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Mike Theriault [mailto:Mike_Theriault@Jabil.com]
    > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:44 AM
    > To: 'Tiago Halm'
    > Cc: 'focus-ms@securityfocus.com'
    > Subject: RE: SP4 instalation failure
    >
    >
    > I did not experience the same issue that you did. I was
    > running Win2K server w/ SP3 + IIS and updated the O/S using
    > the SP4 Network Installation. I suspect your error messages
    > are related to permissions.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Mike
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Tiago Halm [mailto:thalm@netcabo.pt]
    > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:47 PM
    > To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: SP4 instalation failure
    >
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I have a Windows 2000 Server with SP3 (fully patched), and (this is
    > important) with IIS installed by default which means all the
    > extensions were still there (like .htr, .htw, etc...).
    >
    > I installed SP4 (network installation) and in the end I was
    > presented with a
    > messagebox:
    >
    > - title "sp4iis"
    > - msg "unable to write scriptmaps metabase entry"
    >
    > I pressed ok and then another messagebox:
    >
    > - title "sp4iis"
    > - msg (this one I am not 100% sure) "regsvr32 failed. the error was 5"
    >
    > I tried the installation 2 more times with always the same
    > result. Next, I went to IIS and removed .htr and .htw and
    > .idq and .ida extensions and tried again.
    >
    > This time no error was logged and everything went ok.
    >
    > Has anyone been presented with a similar behavior ?
    >
    > Regards,
    > Tiago Halm

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