Error while running the FAST for SharePoint post configuration

During a customer installation the other day my project colleagues encountered a weird issue when configuring up a FAST server. (This was after we got all policy issues resolved due to server hardening – which took some time as well).

When running the configuration wizard they got an unexpected error, and the configuration didn’t finish.
Time to hit the installer log…. The error they got was hidden a bit down the load and was coming from the “ULS Common Core Components” which is installed during configuration.

20.10.2011 14:42:39 Verbose InstallAction - Installing ULSCommonCore services
20.10.2011 14:42:39 Verbose Executing ULSCommonCore installer msiexec /i "C:\FASTSearch\\installer\files\ulscommoncore.msi" /quiet /norestart INSTALLLEVEL=100 - 
20.10.2011 14:42:39 Verbose Utility.Execute - Starting process msiexec with working directory - , write output - False, file - , user - 
20.10.2011 14:42:41 Warning Utility.Execute - Return code for binary msiexec is not 0. This may indicate that binary didn't execute successfully
20.10.2011 14:42:41 Verbose Utility.Execute - Finished executing msiexec
20.10.2011 14:42:41 Error InstallULSCommonCore - An error occurred while executing binary msiexec. Return code is not 0.
20.10.2011 14:42:41 Error Utility.WriteException - Exception -  : Exception - System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException: Error executing ULSCommonCore installer.

Upon my suggestion they kicked off the ULS installer manually and got the following pop-up which gave information for further internet searches.



The error is caused by the registry size being too small and has to be increased. Not too obvious from neither the install log nor the pop-up.

Thanks to the below post for giving the resolution on how to increase it :) http://www.geosoft.com/support/knowledge-base/errormessage/Error-An-error-occurred-during-the-installation-of-assembly-Microsoft-VC90-ATL.