"Salvance" wrote:

> We are trying to install Visual Studio Beta 2 on a Windows 2000 machine and
> received the following error (from the log):
>
> ENU: [2] ACTION FAILURE:Action ended 10:12:38: CA_SetPidProps. Return value
> 3.See MSI log for details.
>
> And here's the section of the MSI log where the failure happened:
> ---------
> MSI (s) (64:48) [10:21:06:176]: Doing action: CA_SetPidProps
> Action ended 10:21:06: CostInitialize. Return value 1.
> MSI (s) (64:94) [10:21:06:196]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
> C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI49.tmp, Entrypoint: SetPidProps
> Action start 10:21:06: CA_SetPidProps.
> 05/17/05 10:21:06 DDSet_Status: LANGID: 1033
> 05/17/05 10:21:06 DDSet_Entry: SetPidProps started
> 05/17/05 10:21:06 DDSet_Status: PIDSEQ: 1
> 05/17/05 10:21:06 DDSet_Status: PIDRET: 0
> MSI (s) (64:94) [10:21:06:266]: Leaked MSIHANDLE (39) of type 790531 for
> thread 1172
> MSI (s) (64:94) [10:21:06:266]: Note: 1: 2769 2: CA_SetPidProps 3: 1
> 05/17/05 10:21:06 DDSet_Status: EDITIONTYPE: std
> DEBUG: Error 2769: Custom Action CA_SetPidProps did not close 1 MSIHANDLEs.
> The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package.
> This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2769. The
> arguments are: CA_SetPidProps, 1,
> -----------
>
> This machine has VS6 and VS.NET 2003, but .NET 2.0 and VS2005 Beta 1 were
> not installed. .NET 2.0, MDAC, and other prerequisite components loaded
> fine, but the install stopped immediately upon reaching the VS2005 step. We
> were loading this from the iso download extracted into a local folder. On a
> separate XP machine, it loaded with no problems.
>
> Thanks for your help,