Thursday, 12 August 2010

SQL Server Install Error: Rule “Restart Computer” failed.

So, we get this error when we go to install a new instance of SQL 2008 on a dedicated Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 box:

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Rule Check Result

Rule “Restart computer” failed.

A computer restart is required. You must restart this computer before installing SQL Server.

But, we _just_ restarted it because of that error?!?

A quick search turned up the following:

The Forum post suggest that we look at the following registry key:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations

Sure enough, when we look into the registry, we find the culprit:

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We deleted the content in that key since whatever the HP driver was trying to do it was failing at it miserably.

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Of course, we Exported the Session Manager key _before_ deleting the content!

When we click the Re-run button in the SQL Server 2008 Setup window we were greeted with:

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Restart Computer: Passed

We were good to go on installing that needed instance.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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6 comments:

  1. Evelyn López, age: 25.27 August, 2010 09:29

    What do you mean by "we Exported the Session Manager key _before_ deleting" ? well, by "exported".
    To Where?
    I am having this issue, but I'm just a newbie.
    Can you explain this to me?

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  2. Evelyn López, age: 25.27 August, 2010 10:05

    Ok,
    forget about my last comment.
    I did what you say and I passed the check!
    Thanks a lot for sharing this solution.
    My gmail in case you want to give some feedback:

    evelyn.lrz@gmail.com

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  3. Philip Elder Cluster MVP27 August, 2010 10:27

    Evelyn,

    By default, we export the key we will be making changes to _before_ we make those changes. Just in case.

    Philip

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  4. Amit Pandey20 July, 2013 11:31

    thanks great its working f9
    i really thankful to u..........

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  5. Azad23 November, 2013 07:00

    Can you help me?
    I got the error: Restart Computer failed: while installing SQL sever-2012 in Windows server-2012 standard edition. I got your post and trying to find out the session manager Key. but could not find it??
    C/Windows/system32/.?? to find the path??

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  6. Sreejith05 June, 2014 02:58

    Great ....Solved my issue

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