In-place upgrade from Server 2012 to 2012R2 "just quits"

Question

I have a TechNet subscription and am supposed to get "priority support" but I mistakenly asked my question in one of the forums that is not in the "priority support monitored" list. Included here by reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bbbb34f2-e098-4f7d-b692-88e033869385/windows-server-2012r2-inplace-upgrade-from-2012-quotjust-quitsquot?forum=winserver2012r2previewsetup
Short description: On the 2012 DataCenter machine which serves as my Hyper-V host, I mount the install media and launch Setup. It starts, copies the temporary files ($windows.~bt) and then just quits.
Content of c:\windows\setupact.log:
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info                  UI     Determining whether we should run ConX or legacy setup
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info                  UI     Downlevel OS is server. Continue to run legacy setup
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info                  UI     Determining if we are in WDS/Unattend mode
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info                  UI     No need to hide autorun
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info       [0x0a000a] UI     Autorun:Autorun core successfully  initialized!!!
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info       [0x0a000b] UI     Autorun:Autorun UI successfully  initialized!!!
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info                  UI     AppWindow has layout style 0
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info                  UI     NavWindow has layout style 0
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Warning    [0x0a0180] UI     Failed to change the UI language to en-US.
2013-10-11 10:29:04, Info       [0x0a011c] UI     WizardDialogPost::SetActive
2013-10-11 10:29:09, Info       [0x0a018e] UI     Passing command line parameter ("H:\Sources\setup.exe /HideWelcome /uilanguage:en-US /targetlanguage:en-US") to IBS.
Would appreciate any suggestions that don't involve doing a detailed documentation capture of how the server is configured followed by a clean install, that is what I'm trying to avoid if possible.
I am not trying to do anything special or scripted, just a standard OS upgrade.

Answer 1

Hi Pepper, Malort, Robert and Brandon,
I am experiencing the same issue using either new release (april 2014) or the gold release 2012 R2 DVD from Volume license (SA) download. Both confirmed working on other installations. Setup just suddenly quits with the same non existent logs
files in $windows.~bt and c:\windows\setupact.log has a warning statement "Failed to change the UI language to en-US"
The server is running as a vm and would otherwise appear to be running perfectly. It is a DC(GC), DHCP, DNS & CA for my site.
Going to try System Update readiness Tool KB947821-v33.
Heads up MSFP Anne, any word on the cause and/or fix?
Regards,
Andre
Same here,
trying to upgrade a server 2008 R2 server running on hyper-v to server 2012 R2 with update1.
The server was a server 2008 and was upgraded to server 2008 R2.
This is the only log i can found:
 2014-07-04 14:20:13, Info                  UI     Determining whether we should run ConX or legacy setup
2014-07-04 14:20:13, Info                  UI     Downlevel OS is server. Continue to run legacy setup
2014-07-04 14:20:13, Info                  UI     Determining if we are in WDS/Unattend mode
2014-07-04 14:20:14, Info                  UI     No need to hide autorun
2014-07-04 14:20:14, Info       [0x0a000a] UI     Autorun:Autorun core successfully  initialized!!!
2014-07-04 14:20:14, Info       [0x0a000b] UI     Autorun:Autorun UI successfully  initialized!!!
2014-07-04 14:20:14, Warning               UI     CLanguages::v_InitLanguage - Failed to load en-US resources with error 2. Will load fallback binaries
2014-07-04 14:20:15, Info                  UI     AppWindow has layout style 0
2014-07-04 14:20:15, Info                  UI     NavWindow has layout style 0
2014-07-04 14:20:15, Warning    [0x0a0180] UI     Failed to change the UI language to nl-NL.
2014-07-04 14:20:15, Warning               UI     CLanguages::v_InitLanguage - Failed to load en-US resources with error 2. Will load fallback binaries
2014-07-04 14:20:15, Info       [0x0a011c] UI     WizardDialogPost::SetActive
2014-07-04 14:20:16, Info       [0x0a018e] UI     Passing command line parameter ("D:\Sources\setup.exe /HideWelcome /uilanguage:nl-NL /targetlanguage:nl-NL") to IBS.
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 16 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 16 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 17 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 17 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 18 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 18 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 16 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 16 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 17 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 17 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 18 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 18 key on 0
2014-07-04 14:21:03, Warning    [0x0a0010] UI     WM_KEYUP for 9 key on 0