Thanks for reporting! We will take a look at the issue, whoever it is probably benign - the driver might be just a bit busy and will eventually be shut down. ... View more

this can happen is the driver was busy processing network packets. Eventually it will be shut down by Windows SCM. Let me know if this is persistent issue. ... View more

it looks like the error is GetPreviousSettings: Error: DetermineContextForAllProducts failed witht: 0x65b. Apparently you have some products on the machine which failed to be installed or uninstalled properly. The Splunk installer will attempt to find other Splunk instances on the machine, thus it needs to enumerate installed products. If it fails to read installer database in the registry, the installation fails because it cannot determine if previous Splunk product is installed (this is need to properly upgrade Splunk). I would recommend trying to clean up installation database. For example this utility may help: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/290301, ... View more

what is #splunk? ... View more

what build are you upgrading from? ... View more

do you see elevated prompt in Vista? If you are admin it should give you consent window, if you are not admin it will be window to enter admin password. It may take a while before elevation happens (~ 2 min or so). ... View more