Missing DLL during re-installation



XP PRO SP2

I downloaded and installed SQL Server 2005 Express with Advanced Services
(9.0.3042.0). The installation appeared to complete successfully and I
looked at various options of Management Studio. After exiting, rebooting,
and restarting Management Studio, I got the message, (paraphrased) Management
Studio failed to initiate - terminating. After using Add/Remove to remove
all installed components, I reran the installation. I got two error messages
indicating that xpstar90.dll is missing. Did not see these messages during
the first install.


Log SQL0003_mycomputername_SQL contains these errors:

Error Code: 17750
MSI (s) (94!58) [18:24:53:031]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -- Error
29521. SQL Server Setup failed to execute a command for server configuration.
The error was [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Could not load the
DLL xpstar90.dll, or one of the DLLs it references. Reason: 2(The system
cannot find the file specified.).. Refer to the server error logs and Setup
logs for detailed error information.

Error 29521. SQL Server Setup failed to execute a command for server
configuration. The error was [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Could
not load the DLL xpstar90.dll, or one of the DLLs it references. Reason:
2(The system cannot find the file specified.).. Refer to the server error
logs and Setup logs for detailed error information.

SQL_ERROR (-1) in OdbcStatement::execute_batch
sqlstate=42000, level=16, state=1, native_error=17750, msg=[Microsoft][SQL
Native Client][SQL Server]Could not load the DLL xpstar90.dll, or one of the
DLLs it references. Reason: 2(The system cannot find the file specified.).
sqlstate=42000, level=16, state=1, native_error=14658, msg=[Microsoft][SQL
Native Client][SQL Server]Failed to retrieve SQLPath for syssubsystems
population.

Error Code: 0x80074556 (17750)
Windows Error Text: Source File Name: lib\odbc_statement.h
Compiler Timestamp: Wed Jun 14 16:28:15 2006
Function Name: OdbcStatement::execute_batch@xxxxxxxxxxxx@113
Source Line Number: 91

Log SQL0003_mycomputername_Core reported:

Error: Action "LaunchLocalBootstrapAction" threw an exception during
execution. Error information reported during run:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\setup.exe"
finished and returned: 17750
Aborting queue processing as nested installer has completed
Message pump returning: 17750


Log SQL003_mycomputername_Core(Local) reported:

Action: "UninstallForMSDE2000Action" will be marked as failed due to the
following condition:
Condition "sql was successfully upgraded." returned false. Condition context:
sql failed to upgrade and so the uninstall of the upgraded product will not
occur.
Installation of package: "patchMSDE2000" failed due to a precondition.
Error: Action "UninstallForSQLAction" failed during execution. Error
information reported during run:
Action: "UninstallForSQLAction" will be marked as failed due to the
following condition:
Condition "sql was successfully upgraded." returned false. Condition context:
sql failed to upgrade and so the uninstall of the upgraded product will not
occur.
Installation of package: "patchLibertySql" failed due to a precondition.
Skipped: UninstallForRS2000Action
Skipped: Action "UninstallForRS2000Action" was not run. Information
reported during analysis:
Action: "UninstallForRS2000Action" will be skipped due to the following
condition:
Condition "Action: InstallRSAction was skipped." returned true.
Error: Action "ExposeVistaClusteredResources" failed during execution.
Error information reported during run:
Action: "ExposeVistaClusteredResources" will be marked as failed due to the
following condition:
Condition "The Clustered SQL Server instance that hosts is installed."
returned false.
Running: ReportChainingResults at: 2007/8/11 18:27:5
Error: Action "ReportChainingResults" threw an exception during execution.
One or more packages failed to install. Refer to logs for error details. :
17750
Error Code: 0x80074556 (17750)
Windows Error Text: Source File Name: sqlchaining\sqlchainingactions.cpp
Compiler Timestamp: Thu Nov 16 20:31:57 2006
Function Name: sqls::ReportChainingResults:erform
Source Line Number: 3521

---- Context -----------------------------------------------
sqls::HostSetupPackageInstallerSynch:ostCommit
sqls::HighlyAvailablePackage:reInstall
led due to cancel code received from cancel source: 29539

Error: Failed to add file :"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup
Bootstrap\LOG\Files\SQLSetup0003_DCHJL761_.NET Framework 2.0.log" to cab file
: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup
Bootstrap\LOG\SqlSetup0003.cab" Error Code : 2
Running: UploadDrWatsonLogAction at: 2007/8/11 18:29:5
Message pump returning: 17750



No other log appeared to contain a related error message.



A third attempt to install resulted without going through Add/Remove
resulted in a Failure to create database files.


--
Al Williams
.



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