SQL Server 2022 Express Edition Installation Problems

Question

Good afternoon, I am trying to install SQL Server 2022 to my laptop, but it keeps giving me errors at the end of the installation process.

It tells me that it's unable to install SQL Server (setup.exe)

Exit code (Decimal): -2061893606

Error description: Wait on the database engine recovery handle failed. Check the SQL server error log for potential causes.

I will copy and paste the error log here:

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM) - 16.0.1000.6 (X64)

Oct  8 2022 05:58:25 

Copyright (C) 2022 Microsoft Corporation

Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows 10 Home 10.0  (Build 26100: ) (Hypervisor)

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server UTC adjustment: -6:00

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server (c) Microsoft Corporation.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server All rights reserved.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Server process ID is 15784.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server System Manufacturer: 'ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.', System Model: 'ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV'.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Authentication mode is WINDOWS-ONLY.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server The service account is 'NT Service\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS04'. This is an informational message; no user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Registry startup parameters:

 -d C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf

 -e C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG

 -l C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Command Line Startup Parameters:

 -s "SQLEXPRESS04"

 -m "SqlSetup"

 -Q

 -q "SQL\_Latin1\_General\_CP1\_CI\_AS"

 -T 4022

 -T 4010

 -T 3659

 -T 3610

 -T 8015

 -d "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\Template Data\master.mdf"

 -l "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\Template Data\mastlog.ldf"

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server SQL Server detected 1 sockets with 8 cores per socket and 16 logical processors per socket, 16 total logical processors; using 8 logical processors based on SQL Server licensing. This is an informational message; no user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Detected 15661 MB of RAM. This is an informational message; no user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Using conventional memory in the memory manager.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Detected pause instruction latency: 39 cycles.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.83 Server Page exclusion bitmap is enabled.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.92 Server Buffer Pool: Allocating 1048576 bytes for 769836 hashPages.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.92 Server Default collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS (us_english 1033)

2025-01-07 15:21:45.93 Server Buffer pool extension is already disabled. No action is necessary.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.96 Server CPU vectorization level(s) detected: SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 AVX AVX2 POPCNT BMI1 BMI2 AVX512 (F CD BW DQ VL IFMA VBMI VBMI2 VNNI BITALG VPOQCNTDQ BF16)

2025-01-07 15:21:45.97 Server Perfmon counters for resource governor pools and groups failed to initialize and are disabled.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.98 Server Query Store settings initialized with enabled = 1,

2025-01-07 15:21:45.98 Server The maximum number of dedicated administrator connections for this instance is '1'

2025-01-07 15:21:45.99 Server Node configuration: node 0: CPU mask: 0x00000000000000ff:0 Active CPU mask: 0x00000000000000ff:0. This message provides a description of the NUMA configuration for this computer. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.99 Server Using dynamic lock allocation. Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:45.99 Server Lock partitioning is enabled. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.00 Server In-Memory OLTP initialized on lowend machine.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.01 Server [INFO] Created Extended Events session 'hkenginexesession'

2025-01-07 15:21:46.01 Server Database Instant File Initialization: enabled. For security and performance considerations see the topic 'Database Instant File Initialization' in SQL Server Books Online. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.01 Server Total Log Writer threads: 2, Node CPUs: 4, Nodes: 1, Log Writer threads per CPU: 1, Log Writer threads per Node: 2

2025-01-07 15:21:46.02 Server Database Mirroring Transport is disabled in the endpoint configuration.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.02 Server clwb is selected for pmem flush operation.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.02 Server Software Usage Metrics is disabled.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.02 spid26s Warning ******************

2025-01-07 15:21:46.02 spid26s SQL Server started in single-user mode. This an informational message only. No user action is required.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.02 spid26s Starting up database 'master'.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.03 spid26s There have been 256 misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO. The current IO is on file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQLEXPRESS04\MSSQL\Template Data\master.mdf.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.04 spid26s Unable to create stack dump file due to stack shortage (ex_terminator - Last chance exception handling)

2025-01-07 15:21:46.04 spid26s Stack Signature for the dump is 0x0000000000000000

2025-01-07 15:21:46.04 spid26s CDmpClient::ExecuteAllCallbacks started.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.04 spid26s XE_DumpCallbacks is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.05 spid26s DumpCallbackSOS is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.05 spid26s DumpCallbackEE is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.05 spid26s DumpCallbackSE is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.05 spid26s DumpCallbackSEAM is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.05 spid26s DumpCallbackSSB is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s DumpCallbackQE is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s DumpCallbackFullText is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s DumpCallbackSQLCLR is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s DumpCallbackHk is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s DumpCallbackRepl is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s DumpCallbackPolyBase is executing...

2025-01-07 15:21:46.07 spid26s CDmpClient::ExecuteAllCallbacks completed. Time elapsed: 0 seconds.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.11 Server CLR version v4.0.30319 loaded.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.15 Server Common language runtime (CLR) functionality initialized using CLR version v4.0.30319 from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319.

2025-01-07 15:21:46.70 spid26s External dump process return code 0x20000001.

External dump process returned no errors.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Hello Jordan_614,

thank you for posting on the Microsoft Community Forums.

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Have a nice day.

Best regards,

Lei