Altiris Error 1603 Installing Package
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satisfaction level using Symantec Connect. One lucky winner will receive 500 Connect error 1603 altiris deployment console points! * Take the survey. Understanding Error 1603: Fatal Error During Installation Created: 15 Oct 2007 | 11 comments altiris error code 1603 Language TranslationsMachine TranslationsDeutsch Français Español 简体中文 日本語 R-Vijay +2 2 Votes Login to vote Tweet This error message is displayed by the Microsoft Windows Installer engine and is a general
Windows Error Code 1603
error code that indicates a problem occurred during the installation. Read on to learn how to sidestep this speed bump. The following is a non-exhaustive list of known causes for this error: Short file name creation is disabled on the target machine. An Install Script custom action is prototyped incorrectly. A file is locked and cannot be overwritten. The Microsoft Windows Installer
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Service is not installed correctly. The Windows Temp folders are full. The setup was corrupted after installation and, therefore, fails with this error during un-installation. An older version of Install Shield Developer is being used. A general error occurred during the installation. Print and File sharing is not installed or enabled when installing MSDE 2000. How to Avoid this Error The following solutions have resolved this error in the majority of cases: Make sure short file name creation is enabled on the target machine. You can check to ensure that the target machine does not have short file name creation disabled by navigating to the following registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem Make sure the value "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" is equal to 0. This indicates that short file name creation is enabled. A value of 1 indicates that this functionality is disabled. You should change the value to 0. After modifying this value, the target machine should be rebooted before attempting to launch the setup again. Note: If the target machine should normally have short file name creation disabled, it can be disabled after the install completes by reset
Home » Troubleshoot the error 1603 "Fatal Error During Installation" Troubleshoot the error 1603 "Fatal Error During Installation" 7 years ago This error message is displayed by the Microsoft Windows Installer installation success or error status 1603 windows 7 Engine (Wondering whats this? Read here) and is a general error code
Error 1603 Windows 7
that indicates a problem occurred during the installation. Read on this article to learn how to sidestep this speed bump. how to fix error 1603 The following is the probable list of known causes for this error to occur: Short file name creation is disabled on the target machine. An Install Script custom action is prototyped incorrectly. A http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/understanding-error-1603-fatal-error-during-installation file is locked and cannot be overwritten. The Microsoft Windows Installer Service is not installed correctly. The Windows Temp folders are full. The setup was corrupted after installation and, therefore, fails with this error during un-installation. An older version of Install Shield Developer is being used. Print and File sharing is not installed if your application needs it. Troubleshooting 1603 MSI Error As discussed, https://www.msigeek.com/715/how-to-troubleshoot-the-error-1603-fatal-error-during-installation The 1603 error code is mostly returned when any action fails during an installation on Windows, and most commonly it indicates that one of the custom actions in the MSI failed. When we encounter a failed setup with return code 1603, here are the steps that we should follow: Re-run the setup with verbose logging enabled using steps similar to those that are listed here. Step 1: Generate a verbose log file named msi*.log in the %temp% directory the next time the setup package is executed. (Click here to know more ways to generate log). Know more about the command-line switches here. msiexec /i
am trying to run the Altiris Agent on a few of my workstations. It is the file called http://www.altirigos.com/forums/threads/altiris-agent-ns-agent-error-1603-on-install.10343/ aexnscinstsvc.msi. When exectuted I get a Big Red X with "Error 1603 installing package. " Anyone got any Ideas? rmusick, Jan 8, 2009 #1 jharings Member This file http://www.adminarsenal.com/admin-arsenal-blog/windows-installer-error-1603-behind-the-rage/ is just the stub (or bootstrap, if you prefer) launcher that the push\pull mechanisms use. If you want to install the agent manually, you need to use AEXNSC.exe, error 1603 located in the \program files\altiris\notification server\nscap\bin\win32\x86\nsclient package (I *think* that's right). Note that running it from this .exe will leave the server name blank, and you will have to run (several options actually) a method to populate this name. The easiest option is the run the aexagentutil.exe /server:yourservername. The util is in the install directory of altiris error 1603 where you put the agent. jharings, Jan 8, 2009 #2 rmusick Member Thanks for the info, I found my problem though. I had another file that needed to be copied, and didn't have the "copy all directory files" box checked. rmusick, Jan 9, 2009 #3 (You must log in or sign up to reply here.) Show Ignored Content Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Password: Forgot your password? Stay logged in Altirigos Home Forums > Deployment Solution > Deployment Server > Home Home Quick Links Recent Activity What's New? Help Forums Forums Quick Links Search Forums What's New? Members Members Quick Links Registered Members Current Visitors Recent Activity Help Help Quick Links Smilies BB Codes Trophies Search titles only Posted by Member: Separate names with a comma. Newer Than: Search this thread only Search this forum only Display results as threads Useful Searches Recent Threads More... Style Altirigos Contact Us Home Top RSS Forum software by XenForo™ ©2011 XenForo Ltd. Terms and Rules
to check out this blog post. I'm going to spend some time on this damn error. I swear this error message is the "exit code" dumpster for Windows. It seems, on its face, to be the most useless exit code consistently thrown by Windows. Well, maybe not. 1st things first, what do those "close" to this error say about 1603? "Well, we know he grew up in a decent neighborhood. He wasn't incredibly popular but he had a few good friends. He enjoyed listening to RATT and Twisted Sister but he also waited in line for 2 days to get 3rd row seats to see Depeche Mode during the Black Celebration tour. His given name is: ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE. His SSN is 1603. His Family Crest is thus emblazoned: A Fatal Error Occurred During Installation. It was with Windows XP that he went through puberty. All of the normal issues of a maturing American Error Code were present in 1603 during this time. Acne, Braces, Body Odor and, of course, Nocturnal Emissions. Slowly he started losing friends. Within 6 months he was compared to a Steven Jesse Bernstein poem. He was quickly becoming the loner that we know today. "He's probably the hardest working error code out there" says Nils Sille, a Sys Admin and part-time error code bounty hunter. "You could say he is the Sasquatch of the Windows world. Every snapshot we have of the adult 1603 is similar: You never get a good look at his face and he's always walking away." Fellow 43 year old virgin and part-time Sys Admin, Humphrey Warren, concurs. "If there was ever a time when we need the Bat Signal, it is now." OK, listen, forget the lore. Forget the sensationalism. Lose the fear. When you run into a 1603 error, don't panic. There are a number of reasons that installations throw this error. Most of the time it is because "someonewas expected but never showed up". That "someone" could be another Installation file, inadequate permissions to a directory or file (which you'd expect to see Error Code 5, the standard code for Access Denied events), an expected registry or WMI value, an environment variable, a network drive, etc. Antivirus software has also been known to be the cause of directories or files being unavailable and thus cause a 1603 error. Let's say t