On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:57:13 +0200, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

[snip]

I should have added in my last post that I appreciate your time.
I have not been sitting around myself, but I do not have anything
effective yet.

I tried using system restore points today. For some reason, the
only one that has worked is the one that I made just before trying to
restore.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:43:21 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net>
wrote:

In the excitement, I forgot that I had chased down the WMI
problem further. There is a program wmidiag.vbs that dianoses many
problems with WMI. It shows many on my system, but I do not know how
to correct them. I will be trying do this.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Gene Wirchenko (genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net) writes:
Well, Oracle is the main competitor for SQL Server. If you want an
enterprise RDBMS there aren't that many to chose from. IBM's DB2 has
lost ground to the other two over recent years. Sybase managed to
get Wall Street, but overall its market share is small. Teradata have
their niche. Informix is not very much alive and kicking. I now expect
any of them to be trivial to install. Database engines are simply
complex products.

Sure, a smaller DBMS like FoxPro or Access is certainly easier to
install, but they are also fairly limited.

Then there is the middle group like MySQL and PostgreSQL that I don't
know much about.

Anyway, I looked at your logs, and it seems that if the first try
(at least first of the logs you posted) you came longer. This is the
log that fails with "MOF compiler could not connect with the WMI server".
This is a Windows issue as such. I found
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...7-c858c0efa877
and the advice there helped at least one person. I also found
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServ...the-wmi-server
which includes some discussion of why it may happen. You need to
read from bottom to top. (Not my idea!)

The second failure happens at an earlier stage, which succeeded the first
time. Here something goes wrong when it tries to figure out information
about the service account for the SQL Browser Service. Since this is a
system account, Network Service, this is a little puzzling - and
worrying. But maybe a reboot of Windows helps. Else someting got
permanently damaged by the previous install failure.


--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx
SQL 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinf...ons/books.mspx

Gene Wirchenko (genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net) writes:
I think mine is hosed too. Often when I get notifications about Windows
Update and go to see the available updates in the Control Panel, nothing
is listed. I was told that this is a WMI problem, and did run some
repair/diag thing, but I was not able to make out much of it.


--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx
SQL 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinf...ons/books.mspx

On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:02:30 +0200, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

Interesting. I had Windows updating off. I turned it on, and it
hung on one of the updates. I finally aborted it. I think that I
will give it one more go, but I am not hopeful.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko