Continuous Reboot Message when Installing SAS 9.2 and EG 4.2

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During the SAS 9.2 Deployment Wizard I was continually getting a message saying I had to reboot the machine.  After rebooting 3 times I new something was up.  Some searching on support.sas.com revealed the following fix:

  • Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager in the registry.
  • If it contains FileRenameOperations or PendingFileRenameOperations, delete this key, and retry the SAS installation.
  • Always make a backup of your registry before making changes

Sure enough this worked.  I didn’t even bother rebooting the machine at all, I simply deleted the registry key and continued with the installation.

This post was kindly contributed by Jared Prins' Blog - SAS - go there to comment and to read the full post.