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An Error occured during the installation of assembly component - 98cb24ad-52fb-db5f-a01f-c8b3b9a1e18e

Posted 2006-09-19 11:49 PM in Musings.

This is a lousy error message for a number of reasons:

An Error occurred during the installation of assembly component - 98cb24ad-52fb-db5f-a01f-c8b3b9a1e18e

It doesn't tell me the file name.
It gives me a GUID that sends me into the registry looking for COM stuff only to find nothing
It uses the word "assembly" that implies .NET and sends me into the GAC only to find nothing

Instead this is an error from deep in the underbelly of Windows in a section that dare not speaks its name - Side-By-Side or WinSXS.

This says that something horribly wrong while installing the VC++ 8.0 C Runtime into the WinSXS 'subsystem' folder under C:\windows.

I'm getting this error while installing TortoiseSVN4 on a Windows Vista RC1 machine. This is what my WORKING system looks like:

Winsxs

This is the non-working system:

Now I'm not sure what to do. No one is allowed to install files into c:\windows\winsxs\manifests except the TrustedInstaller user...not even Administrator. Je suis screwed.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:40:48 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

99% of the time there is a reboot pending and no more actions can be merged into the current set. Take a look at %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log to see the last few lines... look for "(F)" for the failures. If it's not a required reboot send me the last few hundred lines of cbs.log right after retrying the MSI installation and I'll take a look.

There were some synchronization/coordination problems between the MSI based component installs and the OS optional component/patch installs which should be fixed at this point (I think that some of the fixes may have gone in post-RC1 but I can probably verify that from the log).

I agree the error message is ... not great; I'll forward this link to the appropriate folks.

Michael Grier [MSFT]

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:21:35 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Interesting...I'll send it along....here's what I've got:

2006-09-18 23:25:24, Info SXS Install Assembly from C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Temp\SxsTemp\20060918232514616.0\x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_0de06acd.manifest
2006-09-18 23:25:24, Info SXS Submitting stage transaction with 5 operations
2006-09-18 23:25:24, Info CSI 00000018 Performing 5 operations; 5 are not lock/unlock and follow:
Stage (1): flags: 00000008 app: [Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral]) comp: Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral man: @0x376f0c
StageFile (2): flags: 00000008 app: [Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral]) comp: Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral file: [ml:24{12},l:22{11}]"msvcr80.dll" srcfile: @0x376bac
StageFile (2): flags: 00000008 app: [Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral]) comp: Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral file: [ml:24{12},l:22{11}]"msvcp80.dll" srcfile: @0x3770bc
StageFile (2): flags: 00000008 app: [Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral]) comp: Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL
2006-09-18 23:25:24, Info CSI (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral file: [ml:24{12},l:22{11}]"msvcm80.dll" srcfile: @0x37696c
AddCat (14): flags: 0 catfile: @0x376d14
2006-09-18 23:25:25, Info CSI 00000019 Creating NT transaction (seq 1), objectname [6]"(null)"
2006-09-18 23:25:25, Info CSI 0000001a Created NT transaction (seq 1) result 0x00000000, handle @0x3d0
2006-09-18 23:25:25, Info CSI 0000001b (F) c0190005 [Error,Facility=FACILITY_TRANSACTION,Code=5] #3976# from Windows::Rtl::SystemImplementation::DirectFileSystemProvider::SysCreateFile(flags = 0, handle = {provider=NULL, handle=0}, da = (FILE_GENERIC_READ), oa = @0x149eda0->OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES {s:24; rd:NULL; on:[57]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\80d01d64b4dbc60101000000640b200b\"; a:(OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE)}, iosb = @0x149edb8, as = (null), fa = (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY), sa = (FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE|FILE_SHARE_DELETE), cd = FILE_OPEN, co = (FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE|FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT|0x00004000), eab = NULL, eal = 0, disp = Invalid)

2006-09-18 23:25:25, Info CSI 0000001c@2006/9/19:06:25:25.221 (F) d:\vistarc1\base\wcp\sil\merged\ntu\ntsystem.cpp(1408): Error c0190005 [Error,Facility=FACILITY_TRANSACTION,Code=5] originated in function Windows::Rtl::SystemImplementation::DirectFileSystemProvider::SysCreateFile expression: (null)

2006-09-18 23:25:25, Info CSI 0000001d (F) c0190005 [Error,Facility=FACILITY_TRANSACTION,Code=5] #3975# from Windows::Rtl::SystemImplementation::CSystemIsolationLayer_IRtlSystemIsolationLayerTearoff::OpenFilesystemDirectory(flags = 0, da = (FILE_GENERIC_READ), dn = [ml:196{98},l:114{57}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\80d01d64b4dbc60101000000640b200b\", sa = (FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE|FILE_SHARE_DELETE), oo = (FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE|FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT|FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT), dir = NULL, disp = (null))

2006-09-18 23:25:25, Info SXS Submitting install transaction
2006-09-18 23:25:26, Info CSI 0000001e Performing 1 operations; 1 are not lock/unlock and follow:
Install (5): flags: 0 tlc: [Microsoft.VC80.CRT, Version = 8.0.50727.42, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b}, Type = [l:10{5}]"win32", TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral]) ref: ( flgs: 00000000 guid: {27dec61e-b43c-4ac8-88db-e209a8242d90} name: [l:0]"" ncdata: [l:62{31}]"C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe") thumbprint: [l:128{64}]"935df4549e21123a2efb986a707f54475380a037519679510e4b4dfc4bdb5767"
2006-09-18 23:25:26, Info CSI 0000001f Cannot install deployment that's not staged
2006-09-18 23:25:26, Info CSI 00000020@2006/9/19:06:25:26.814 (F) d:\vistarc1\base\wcp\componentstore\csd_transact.cpp(1591): Error STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND originated in function CCSDirectTransaction::InstallDeployment expression: (null)

2006-09-18 23:25:26, Info CSI 00000021 (F) STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND #4101# from CCSDirectTransaction::OperateEnding at index 0 of 1 operations, disposition 0
2006-09-18 23:25:26, Info CSI 00000022 (F) HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND) #4017# from Windows::COM::CComponentStore::IStore2_Transact2(...)
2006-09-18 23:25:26, Error SXS Transact2 failed with 0x800736b3