Few of my clients are still running older versions of SQL Server and they have their own reasons to not to move to the new SQL version. In this blog, I would share my findings of how I identified the cause of failure “Disk full: There is not enough disk space on the volume.”
Whenever I get a failure of any installation, I always follow official Microsoft documentation:
View and Read SQL Server Setup Log Files
I investigated Summary_<MachineName>_Date.txt file and found an error message.
Detailed results:
Feature: Full-Text and Semantic Extractions for Search
Status: Failed: see logs for details
Reason for failure: An error occurred for a dependency of the feature causing the setup process for the feature to fail.
Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again.
Component name: SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance Features
Component error code: 1603
Component log file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20191229_100959\MSSQLSERVER\sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64_1.log
Feature: Database Engine Services
Status: Failed: see logs for details
Reason for failure: An error occurred during the setup process of the feature.
Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again.
Component name: SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance Features
Component error code: 1603
Component log file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20191229_100959\MSSQLSERVER\sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64_1.log
Feature: SQL Server Replication
Status: Failed: see logs for details
Reason for failure: An error occurred during the setup process of the feature.
Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again.
Component name: SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance Features
Component error code: 1603
Component log file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20191229_100959\MSSQLSERVER\sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64_1.log
As we can see, ALL the failures are pointing us to another file sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64_1.log and the error code is 1603. As mentioned in Microsoft documentation, I searched for “value 3” (without double quotes) and found the place of failure with an error message in sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64_1.log.
Here is the error message in text format.
Disk full: There is not enough disk space on the volume ‘D:’ to continue the install with recovery enabled. 131,060 KB are required, but only 48 KB are available. Click Ignore to continue the install without saving recovery information, click Retry to check for available space again, or click Cancel to quit the installation.
Action ended 3:22:05: InstallValidate. Return value 3.
Action ended 3:22:05: INSTALL. Return value 3.
WORKAROUND/SOLUTION – Disk Full
I don’t know if I need to explain the corrective action for the error message we received. Yes, it is about low free space issue on D drive. The correction action would be to move some files around to other drives so that we have enough space on D drive and setup can be completed.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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