January 22, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I would appreciate any help. Attached is an error log of my attempted update from sp2 to sp3.
I have yet to have a successful sp update with my installation of SQLServer 2005.
Server seems to run fine, but always an error when sp is applied. SIGH.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
January 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I see few errors one of those is:
Disk space required for the installation exceeds available disk space. Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgDesc1 = The available disk space and the space required for installation are shown below. Property(S): DiskSpace_DlgText = The highlighted volumes, if any, do not have enough disk space available for the currently selected features. Click Disk Cleanup to free disk space and then click Resume to continue the installation, or click Exit to exit the wizard.
Do you run low on disk space when SP3 installation is running on the server? What is the version and edition of SQL Server?
MJ
January 22, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hi MJ,
I am running SQL Server2005 standard edition sp2 under Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition sp2.
I don't think disk space is a problem, there are two volumes on that server, each with over 250 GB free. I never see the button for cleaning up disk space, so I was thinking those types of things in the log are really just dialog templates. Since those particular error conditions never occur, that dialog is not presented. There are lots of things in there similar to that, although I'm not very familiar with the whole sp install process / language.
It looks to me like the error occurs at the end of the log,it complains about being unable to delete a file. That file doesn't exist on my file system, but I don't know where that file is created, or why it is missing, or what it contains. I thought about just creating a 0 length file of that name so it would be happy, but I'd really like to understand what is going on better, so I'm not so lost when the sp process doesn't work, which is every single time for me on this machine.
Doesn't seem to be documented very well on how to troubleshoot the installation process when things fail, and there really is no support channel other than $250 per incident that I could find and I'm not too interested in paying that fee. I remember using some Microsoft email support forum for free when I did the sp2 upgrade, took a while to get a response, but I did ultimately get a good response and solution, but that was a different issue. It doesn't appear that support site exists any longer. At any rate I can't find it, hence my try here for help.
Thanks,
Steve
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