MBSA Installation unsuccesful

[Kari]

Installing MBSA, under W2K, does not succeed for an unknown
reason. The error message is
Setup was interrupted before Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer could be completetely unstalled. Your system has
not been modified. To complete installation at another
time, please run setup again.
Installation log contains following lines
....
Action start 10:30:27: CheckSilentUpgrade.
MSI (c) (44:F0): Creating MSIHANDLE (2) of type 790542 for
thread 3056
MSI (c) (44:F0): Creating MSIHANDLE (3) of type 0 for
thread 3056
MSI (c) (44:F0): Failed to marshal script action.
MSI (c) (44:F0): Failed to marshal script action.
MSI (c) (44:F0): Closing MSIHANDLE (3) of type 0 for thread
3056
MSI (c) (44:F0): Closing MSIHANDLE (2) of type 790542 for
thread 3056
Action ended 10:30:27: CheckSilentUpgrade. Return value 3.
MSI (c) (44:F0): Doing action: FatalError
Action start 10:30:27: FatalError.
Info 2898. MSSansSerif8, MS Sans Serif, 1
Info 2898. Arial10, Arial, 1
Info 2898. Arial8, Arial, 1
Action 10:30:27: FatalError. Dialog created
Action ended 10:30:30: FatalError. Return value 2.
Action ended 10:30:30: INSTALL. Return value 3.
MSI (c) (44:F0): Destroying RemoteAPI object.
....
=== Logging stopped: 16/06/2004 10:30:31 ===
MSI (c) (44:F0): Note: 1: 1729
MSI (c) (44:F0): Product: Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer 1.2 -- Configuration failed.

MSI (c) (44:F0): Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (44:F0): Cleaning up uninstalled install packages,
if any exist
MSI (c) (44:F0): MainEngineThread is returning 1603
=== Verbose logging stopped: 16/06/2004 10:30:31 ===

What's wrong?

 

[Michael Sanford [MVP]]

Hi Kari,

Well -- I think you can tell this from the log, but a custom action named
"CheckSilentUpgrade" is failing (return value of 3). CustomActions are
basically a black box, so there is no way for us to know what exactly it is
doing or why it is failing. All I can suggest is to contact PSS.