Persistent installation errors with Beta2/RC0 : "Beta 2 was not attempted to be installed."

Question

When I run the installer, it take about 10 miniutes of "installing" before there is an error, the error is below.

I've seen that there are threads describing a similar error with earlier drops, but I didn't see any mention of a way out.

I'm running on XP, I've run the removal tool but still I get the error. Has anyone else installed this drop on XP?

Is anyone else having this install problem with XP or other?

[05/24/06,12:27:29] Windows Communication Foundation Beta 2: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Windows Communication Foundation Beta 2. MSI returned error code 1603
[05/24/06,12:27:39] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 - Beta 2 was not attempted to be installed.

Install guide from Madhu: http://blogs.msdn.com/madhuponduru/archive/2006/05/23/605077.aspx

I'm going to cross my fingers and try to install it on a Win Server 2003 inside VMWare.

Answer 1

Can you please share out %temp%\dd_*.txt from the machine,my email id is [e-mail]

yesetrday somebody reported us the same problem,it looks like,it is info card service problem

//can you please check you are experiencing this problem

Work around for common install problem when moving to WinFX Beta 2 from WinFX February CTP
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=420831&SiteID=1

By any chance,you have SQL server 2005 express edition on this machine?

 

-Thank you

Madhu

Answer 2

Thank you,

I used the sc delete and the installer has completed without reporting an error. I did not try this at first because the error message was very different.

I sent the files from temp just in case they are still of interest. 

I'm pretty sure I had Sql Express previously installed, but at the moment I have Sql 2005 Dev Edition.

 

 

 

Answer 3

Hi,

I ran into the same problem moving from Feb CTP to Beta 2.

The sc delete.. did not work for me, and I have SQL Express installed.

Any idea?

Answer 4

Does marking a post as the answer mean that you wont come back to it?

Answer 5

Given that there are other cases that the sc delete did not resolve I removed the answer setting on the earlier post.

Answer 6

Thanks Michael,you are right,sc delete didn't solve the problem in few cases

I am working with Guy Burstein  and other customers offline,I will let you know answer

-Thank you

Madhu

Answer 7

 

Thanks to Guy Burstein for providing all the info to trouble shoot the problem,If you are experiencing winfx beta2 installation problem,please try following two work arounds

 

KNOWN PROBLEM #1:

 

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=420831&SiteID=1

 

 

KNOWN PROBLEM #2

 

 

Please check previous version of WCF was completely uninstalled.  To fix, you will need to remove all references to version 2.0.0.0 of System.ServiceModel from the root web.config file (c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\config\web.config)

 

How to check:

 

open c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\config\web.config and search for "System.ServiceModel",and if you find any System.ServiceModel entrees, check the version, if the version is 2.0.0.0(Version=2.0.0.0),remove that line from web.config

 

Example:

 

On one of the machines, we found following line causing the problem, we deleted following line (since it is version 2.0), and after this change, we are able to install winfx

 

<add path="*.svc" verb="*" type="System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpHandler, System.ServiceModel, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"

 

                validate="false" />

Answer 8

I also get error code 1603 when I try to install Beta2.

I prevoiously ran Feb CTP on a W2K3 SP1 machine, that never ran any SQL Server Editions.

I tried the above mentioned steps, but none of them helped.

Answer 9

Can you please share out %temp%\dd_*.txt from the machine(please include all dd_wcf* files also),my email id is [e-mail]

please send me c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\config\web.config also

-Thank you

Madhu