Splunk Enterprise

Why unable to upgrade splunk to 8.2.6 due to Splunk setup wizard ended prematurely?

rashiagrawal
Loves-to-Learn Lots

We are trying to upgrade search head from 8.0.1 to 8.2.6 but we are getting error Splunk setup wizard ended prematurely.

 

We tried the solution mentioned on below community post but it didnt worked either

"Splunk Enterprise Setup Wizard ended prematurely"... - Splunk Community

Please find below snapshot for the same-

splunk_upgrade_issue.png

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Stefanie
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@rashiagrawal What was the text inside of the msiexec.log? Can you also check the splunkd.log for any hints?

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