XP SP2 Upgrade failure

[Sandy Wood]

I ran a SP2 update on a machine (running from a network
share) and found it had hung and
not finished the following morning. I started it at 8:00
PM and here's a section of
svcpack.log that looks odd...

2942.313: Starting process:
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\medctrro.exe -UnRegister
2942.313: Return Code = 0
2942.313: Starting process:
C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\HSCUpd.exe
-i C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\hscsp_w3.cab
0.000:
==========================================================
======================
0.000: 2004/10/01 08:18:44.953 (local)
0.000: Executing script \SystemRoot\sprecovr.txt
0.047: Deleting c:\program files\common
files\system\ado\msado27.tlb



it seems to have stopped at the line 2942.313 on the
hscupde.exe
command.......any ideas why it may have stopped here?

I was able to uninstall SP2 and bring the system back to
SP1 but I'm wondering where to look for clues as to why
it would hang at hscupde.exe.....

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Sandy,

if you cannot find any specific solution, your next step would
be a repair installation of Windows XP, followed by another
attempt to install Service Pack 2.

Some more details can be found at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Sandy Wood]

thanks for the help.