The Maintenance Install Tool (MIT) searchs the SAS Deployment Registry in <SASHOME>/deploymntreg to verify that the product and release for which the hot fix is intended is installed.

This note documents the various messages that may be encountered when the

- product for which the hot fix is intended is not installed
- product release number or maintenance number for which the hot fix is intended is not installed

Note: In order to apply hot fixes, the initial product installation must be performed using the SAS Deployment Wizard. Installations performed outside of the SAS Deployment Wizard are not supported.

Message 1

Installation Halted.
The installation package could not be initialized for the following reason:
Failure creating backup directory at {0}.
Installation could not be completed. No changes have been made to your system. More information may be found in the Installation Log:
null

Message 2

The maintenance package you are trying to install requires maintenance version 1, which could not be located on your computer.

Message 3

Either this package is not applicable for the current platform, or this product cannot be found on your system, so the updates contained in this bundle will not be installed.

Follow the instructions in Usage Note 35968 for more information on how to determine the products and product releases that are installed on your system.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	N/A	Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.2 TS2M0
		Windows Vista	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX	9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux for x64	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux on Itanium	9.2 TS2M0
		OpenVMS on HP Integrity	9.2 TS2M0
		Solaris for x64	9.2 TS2M0
		Tru64 UNIX	9.2 TS2M0

* 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.

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Attempting to apply a hot fix to a software product that is not installed results in one of several messages being displayed in the MIT.

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:

Date Modified:	2011-01-02 22:55:04
Date Created:	2010-03-23 10:49:28