Usage Note 35423: SAS® installation fails with setup or registration errors
When attempting to install SAS®, you might experience an installation failure with an error like the following:
Further, if you examine your "sasinstall_mmddyyy_ordernumber.log" file, you might notice the following:
ERROR: Setup was unable to self-register sas.exe
FONTS: Error unloading font resource batang.ttc
FONTS: Error unloading font resource gulim.ttc
ERROR: Setup was unable to self-register sas.exe.
10-21-2008 13:46:49: SASSCU: SAS Service Configuration Utility shortcut/icon added.
10-21-2008 13:46:49: SASRenew: The Renew SAS Software utility could not be found.
10-21-2008 13:46:49: SASFileTypeUtil: The SAS File Type Utility could not be found.
10-21-2008 13:46:49: DoSetinit: Launching-> "C:\Program Files\SAS92\SASFoundation\9.2\SAS.EXE" -sysin C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\{81551126-FCB9-4F0E-9414-838C4D0C451C}\{F9390B82-786C-43CF-A970-D39E23EF0366}\siauto.sas -setinit -log "C:\Program Files\SAS92\SASFoundation\9.2\setinit.log" -icon -nologo -config "C:\Program Files\SAS92\SASFoundation\9.2\SASV9.CFG" -noautoexec -filesync HOST -msg !SASROOT\core\sasmsg
These errors might indicate that your SAS Software Depot is bad or that it has become corrupted.
To work around these errors, download your SAS order again, and then attempt to
rerun setup.exe from your SAS Software Depot location to install SAS.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | N/A | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
Further, if you examine your "sasinstall_mmddyyy_ordernumber.log" file, you might notice the following:
ERROR: Setup was unable to self-register sas.exe
FONTS: Error unloading font resource batang.ttc
FONTS: Error unloading font resource gulim.ttc
This means you have a bad SAS Software Depot.
| Date Modified: | 2009-04-17 15:48:36 |
| Date Created: | 2009-04-01 16:16:01 |
