I just had a problem with this same error on a windows 2000 client. This
was on a new 6.5 install.

At the very end of the install, the installer connected to the windows
event logs through WMI I think but this failed due to WMI repository
being corrupted somehow. The install rolls back at this point.

The problem was with the WMI Registry which needed to be rebuilt. I can
send you instructions if you need. It was relatively painless but needed
a reboot of the client.

On 2/19/2010 5:57 PM, zimmy00 wrote:
> I have over 300 clients out there and out of those I can't seem to get a 
> handful of them upgraded past 6. Now I know that unlike 6 and before, 6.5 
> requires communication with the server, however there are no firewalls in the 
> way. And the servers backup with no problem with the older clients installed. 
> The only error I see in the logs is "Failed to connect to server. Error: 
> 0x800401F0" and of course during the install the app says "Installation was 
> interupted". 
>
> I know it's not the master servers since they have no problem getting to 
> other clients. DNS is not an issue because the master is a unix server and I 
> use the hosts table. And as stated there are no firewalls in between. Anyone 
> have any idea's because I can't think of anything else.
>
> This is happening on both 2000 and 2003 clients, I have ran it locally and 
> tried to push it from another client.  I have ran it as administrator (run 
> as) and as an adminstrator account.  There is no UPS software on these 
> servers (only article I could find on it).
>
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