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Re: Rollup1 ACCESS DENIED
This post is possibly a bit old now, but I really wanted to highlight it as
I had similar issues since ages with a half broken machine that didn't want
to do the WMP10->11 upgrade on XP :
Thanks a lot to you Robert Aldwinckle :
Regmon.exe is definitely the ultimate troubleshooter when installers are
stuck with "Access denied" on dodgy registry key permissions.
"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
> <MikeJMac@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1128532982.544390.52220@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I currently have a number of W2K SP4 servers that just won't take the
> > rollup. Here's the log output directly after it finished copying all
> > the various files:
> >
> > 99.860: Num Ticks for Copying files : 48438
> > 100.641: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for
> > ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
> > 100.641: INF_REGISTRY Failed
> > 100.641: DoInstallation
oRegistryUpdates failed
> > 100.641: Failed Deleting C:\WINNT\system32\msiinst.tmp 2
> > 100.657: VerifySize: Unable to verify size: Source = NULL:
> > c:\winnt\oem17.cat
> > 100.938: Access is denied.
> >
> > It naturally then displays and Access denied error...the strange thing
> > being I'm logged in as local admin. Any idea's guys?
> >
>
>
> I suspect this indicates a permissions problem with some registry keys.
> Unfortunately, the log doesn't show you what they are.
> One approach to solving this would be to run RegMon and FileMon
> concurrently--FileMon just so you can get some timestamp information
> to give you some context within the RegMon trace.
>
> Here's an excerpt from a previous reply which contains more detail
> about the procedure:
>
> <excerpt>
> Run RegMon with a fairly loose filter, e.g. perhaps just update.exe
> would be a tight as you could go on that side. FileMon on the other hand
> would be run just to try to get a more accurate timestamp for the above log
> records; so it could be as tight as update.log for writes only. (The writes
> will show you the length of the records being written so if there is a pattern
> in the log based on the length of their records you can then map the timestamps
> from the FileMon trace onto the less precise timestamps of the update's log
> records and then from there find the precise set of RegMon trace records
> which correspond with those intervening milleseconds.) Depending on how
> many RegMon records you capture you might also be able to spot the
> problem in it by eyeballing its trace only. E.g. it would probably be somewhere
> near the bottom of that trace.
> </excerpt>
>
> The most important point about the idea is that both tools must be
> recording accurate timestamps on each record and there are
> non-default options which need to be set to do that.
>
>
> Here's another excerpt (from a different issue) which mentions that:
>
> <excerpt>
> As for RegMon it's really pretty simple to use. Just download it
> from SysInternals, install it and start it when you want to trace.
> It always prompts you for an Include filter before starting.
> As I said I think that wuauclt would be sufficient for this case.
> If you want to use FileMon, same thing and the filter will be
> WindowsUpdate.log Don't forget to check the Clock Time
> and Milleseconds options on both. To capture their output
> just select all records with a normal Windows keyboard
> procedure such as Home, Shift-End,Ctrl-c (actually, I guess
> if the selected line is already at the bottom that Shift-Home,
> Ctrl-c would be more efficient <w>).
> </excerpt>
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>
>
This post is possibly a bit old now, but I really wanted to highlight it as
I had similar issues since ages with a half broken machine that didn't want
to do the WMP10->11 upgrade on XP :
Thanks a lot to you Robert Aldwinckle :
Regmon.exe is definitely the ultimate troubleshooter when installers are
stuck with "Access denied" on dodgy registry key permissions.
"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
> <MikeJMac@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1128532982.544390.52220@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I currently have a number of W2K SP4 servers that just won't take the
> > rollup. Here's the log output directly after it finished copying all
> > the various files:
> >
> > 99.860: Num Ticks for Copying files : 48438
> > 100.641: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for
> > ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0x5
> > 100.641: INF_REGISTRY Failed
> > 100.641: DoInstallation
oRegistryUpdates failed> > 100.641: Failed Deleting C:\WINNT\system32\msiinst.tmp 2
> > 100.657: VerifySize: Unable to verify size: Source = NULL:
> > c:\winnt\oem17.cat
> > 100.938: Access is denied.
> >
> > It naturally then displays and Access denied error...the strange thing
> > being I'm logged in as local admin. Any idea's guys?
> >
>
>
> I suspect this indicates a permissions problem with some registry keys.
> Unfortunately, the log doesn't show you what they are.
> One approach to solving this would be to run RegMon and FileMon
> concurrently--FileMon just so you can get some timestamp information
> to give you some context within the RegMon trace.
>
> Here's an excerpt from a previous reply which contains more detail
> about the procedure:
>
> <excerpt>
> Run RegMon with a fairly loose filter, e.g. perhaps just update.exe
> would be a tight as you could go on that side. FileMon on the other hand
> would be run just to try to get a more accurate timestamp for the above log
> records; so it could be as tight as update.log for writes only. (The writes
> will show you the length of the records being written so if there is a pattern
> in the log based on the length of their records you can then map the timestamps
> from the FileMon trace onto the less precise timestamps of the update's log
> records and then from there find the precise set of RegMon trace records
> which correspond with those intervening milleseconds.) Depending on how
> many RegMon records you capture you might also be able to spot the
> problem in it by eyeballing its trace only. E.g. it would probably be somewhere
> near the bottom of that trace.
> </excerpt>
>
> The most important point about the idea is that both tools must be
> recording accurate timestamps on each record and there are
> non-default options which need to be set to do that.
>
>
> Here's another excerpt (from a different issue) which mentions that:
>
> <excerpt>
> As for RegMon it's really pretty simple to use. Just download it
> from SysInternals, install it and start it when you want to trace.
> It always prompts you for an Include filter before starting.
> As I said I think that wuauclt would be sufficient for this case.
> If you want to use FileMon, same thing and the filter will be
> WindowsUpdate.log Don't forget to check the Clock Time
> and Milleseconds options on both. To capture their output
> just select all records with a normal Windows keyboard
> procedure such as Home, Shift-End,Ctrl-c (actually, I guess
> if the selected line is already at the bottom that Shift-Home,
> Ctrl-c would be more efficient <w>).
> </excerpt>
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>
>