MOF syntax error occured SQL Server 2012 SP1 English 64 bit Standard Edition

Question

Hi,

System - windows server 2008 SP2 Standard virtual machine with two drives C(windows drive ) and D(complete blank )

SQL Setup disk -   SQL Server 2012 SP1 English 64 bit Standard Edition

On Installation wizard cheked Database engine services , Management Tools - Basic ,  Management Tools - Complete and SQL client connectivity SDK . 

moved with installation wizard as installation and other  folder structure in D drive as much as possible   , rest values default .

During installation progress a message appeared " A MOF Syntax error occured. "

After that a status window appears and in list 
Database Engine Services   -    Failed

Important  History ,

I followed above process as it is  on this  virtual machine  executed sucessfully . Due to some issue complete D drive crashed and disappeared  , so i faced above problem when i added space to virtual machine server again as new D drive of same size and again executed sql server setup after uninstall old entries in add/remove program of windows .

Best Regards ,

Sukhjinder

please find part of installer log as ,

Detailed results:
  Feature:                       Management Tools - Complete
  Status:                        Passed

  Feature:                       Management Tools - Basic
  Status:                        Passed

  Feature:                       Database Engine Services
  Status:                        Failed: see logs for details
  Reason for failure:            An error occurred during the setup process of the feature.
  Next Step:                     Use the following information to resolve the error, uninstall this feature, and then run the setup process again.
  Component name:                SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance Features
  Component error code:          0x84BB0001
  Error description:             A MOF syntax error occurred.
  Error help link:                http: //go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=11.0.3000.0&EvtType=0xA60E3551%400xD3BEBD98%401211%401&EvtType=0xA60E3551%400xD3BEBD98%401211%401

  Feature:                       SQL Browser
  Status:                        Passed

  Feature:                       SQL Writer
  Status:                        Passed

Answer 1

Hello,

Please share with us the Detail.txt log file. The following article may help you locate the file on disk

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143702(v=sql.110).aspx

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

Answer 2

Would you please check-out 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2387686/en-us

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Answer 3

Hi,

Please follow Alberto's suggestion to share us the detail error message as we could analysis further.

Thanks

Candy Zhou

Answer 4

Hello ,

First of all thanks alberto and other forum member for reply ,

I Started from point of analysis from "detail.txt" and tried to installed setup but everytime i got error  as i mentioned above  and now i  just resolved the issue . In the series of analysis events, i came to try a command in windows command prompt .

Winmgmt /verifyrepository 

this command resulted "WMI repository is inconsistent" . 

So to fix this issue i used "Winmgmt /salvagerepository"  and it worked after that Winmgmt /verifyrepository  showed that repository is consistent .

( for more information regarding WMI and command please check ,http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394582(v=vs.85).aspx

and

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/8ed26d46-9994-4052-a307-5b071805aea8/wmi-corrupt-how-to-reinstallrepair

)

After this i cleaned the sql server files and all rest components  from Add and remove program and re-installed sql server .  It installed with no issues .

Regards,

Sukhjinder