Saturday, May 7, 2016

The software change returned error code 0x4005(16389)

I have encountered this annoying problem when I was testing the deployment of Microsoft .Net 4.6.1 in the lab as an application. The application failed with msg in the software center saying “The software change returned error code 0x4005(16389)”


 AppEnforce.log shows “Unmatched exit code (16389) is considered an execution failure”
When the application deployed as Available, it always installed without a single failure. However, when I have deployed the same application as Required, it failed as soon as it completes downloading the application. When I retry the failed application in Software Center, that will get it installed successfully.

After reading various similar issues for .Net 4.5.2, the installer creates its own installation (it is actually a decompression log) log file under %WinDir%\Temp, called dd_NDP461-KB3102436-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU_decompression_log.log

In dd_NDP461-KB3102436-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU_decompression_log.log file we can see Error 0x80004005: Failed to extract all files out of box container #0. 
This is the actual problem but I am not sure what is causing the extract to fail.

To fix this error msg in application; Open the deployment properties for .Net 4.6.1 then go to Program tab then Select Run installation and uninstall program as 32-bit process on 64-bit clients.

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