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SQL Server express hangs installing on XP Pro

After failing to get SSE to install on XP Home (and finding out that while support is claimed on the June drop it isn't there) I upgraded today to XP Pro SP2. I also removed all VWD, ASP.NET 2.0, and SQL components on the machine. After the upgrade I made sure IIS was installed and working then tried to setup VWD again. It got through the ASP.NET 2.0 install and the VWD install but hung on the SSE install when the progress bar was at 100%. Before this was the same behavior I saw when trying to install SSE stand-alone and it was in the "Dectecting IIS" phase. Once the hang occurs and I kill the app then the machine is in a very unstable state and I have to force a power-down to restart. The VWD install package was trying to install the April SSE version.

Any ideas?

Tim

[793 byte] By [TimHa] at [2007-12-17]
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# 1
I have a client who claims that MSDE does the same on W2000, but in testing, I've found it takes ages to finish, but does eventually do so. How long did you leave it for ?
cgraus at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
# 2
I let it go for at least 15 minutes and all disk activity had long since stopped. When Task Manager killed it the "not responding" box came up so it seemed to be DOA.

Tim

TimHa at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
# 3
OK, that's a lot worse than what I experienced. Sounds like it was dead to me :-)

Did you bring up the task manager to see if anything was working hard ?

cgraus at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
# 4
Nothing going on except the System Idle process, my CPU usage is 1%.

TimHa at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
# 5
This looks like an ongoing MS bug with certain systems. There was a bug FDBK31981 that claims to have been fixed with 2.50215.00 but I'm running 50215.44 and getting the same result they did. I tried to submit a bug but that keeps failing tonight, I'll try tomorrow.

Tim

TimHa at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
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