Install FAILED with code 1639

Hello,

While waiting for my VAR to come back from holiday, I thought I would ask here.

I am doing a SW 2017 SP2 clean installation on Windows Server 2012 R2.  The installation runs to 91% and fails.  Examination of the logs gives me this at the end of the log (the detailed one):

[I   0 1  ClientInstaller.cpp(6206) 13:25:34] Calling ::MsiInstallProduct: no installed product; step = 5

[I   0 3  Utilities.cpp(6340) 13:25:34] Info: Attempting to grab MSI Server execution mutex

[I   0 1  Utilities.cpp(6356) 13:25:34] Success: Grabbed the MSI Server execution mutex

[I   0 3  ClientInstaller.cpp(6215) 13:25:38] INFO: Releasing the MSI Server mutex.

[I   0 3  ClientInstaller.cpp(6235) 13:25:38] ::MsiInstallProduct returned 1639

[E 156 1  MSIInstaller.cpp(3245) 13:25:38] \$S13:25:38    Error    Status    156    0    "***START DUMP OF WINDOWS INSTALLER DATA***"

[E 157 1  MSIInstaller.cpp(3253) 13:25:38] \$S13:25:38    Error    Status    157    0    "Info 1639.Invalid command line argument. Consult the Windows Installer SDK for detailed command line help.

"QABU"

[E 158 1  MSIInstaller.cpp(3258) 13:25:38] \$S13:25:38    Error    Status    158    0    "***END DUMP OF WINDOWS INSTALLER DATA***"

[E   0 1  MSIInstaller.cpp(3203) 13:25:38] ** Install FAILED with code 1639

[E 154 1  MSIInstaller.cpp(3204) 13:25:38] \$S13:25:38    Error    Step    154    0    "** Install FAILED with code 1639"

[E 0 1 MSIInstaller.cpp(3055) 13:25:38] Product:SOLIDWORKS PDM Server ErrorCode:1639

"[E" obviously indicates an error.  And I see a lot of this in the log as well:

[E 0 1     Utilities.cpp(3447) 12:58:07] Error 21 in RegVal.exe; Output: xEF xBFxBE (Non-Printable characters) 21

REG_NONE

Doing the Google thing reveals that error 1639 is this, "Invalid command line argument. Consult the Windows Installer SDK for detailed command-line help.", which is no help at all.

Let's discuss.

SolidworksAdministration