1781678 - Failed to update setup engine executables error occurred while installing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.x

• Error message Failed to update setup engine executables. Program will exit. shows up for example when:
  Installing a new version of the product
  Upgrading an existing version of the product
  
  
• In setupengine.log file, the following entries are found:
  
  

  Copying folder setup.engine... Copying files from old setup engine for backwards compatibility... Error: Failed to copy: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine/XERCES27_LICENSE.txt to: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine_temp Error: Class name: N4Poco25FileAccessDeniedExceptionE Error: Display text: Access to file denied: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine_temp/XERCES27_LICENSE.txt CopyFilesAndMaybeUpdatePermissions(): Attempt #1 failed. Error: Failed to copy: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine/XERCES27_LICENSE.txt to: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine_temp Error: Class name: N4Poco25FileAccessDeniedExceptionE Error: Display text: Access to file denied: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine_temp/XERCES27_LICENSE.txt CopyFilesAndMaybeUpdatePermissions(): Attempt #2 failed. Error: Display text: Access to file denied: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine_temp/XERCES27_LICENSE.txt CopyFilesAndMaybeUpdatePermissions(): Attempt #20 failed. Error: Couldn't copy: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine/XERCES27_LICENSE.txt to: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>/InstallData/setup.engine_temp. Giving up. Error: Error updating installed version of the setup engine. Aborting.. Error: Can't update the installed setup engine executables. Aborting. Error: Failed to update setup engine executables. Program will exit. PerlUISession::ShowMessage() called. PerlUISession::ShowMessage(): source = <BOBJINSTALLPACKAGEDIR>/dunit/product.boe64.patch-4.0.5.0-core-32/actions/ShowDisplayMessage.pm set Value Title = Failed to Update set Value Message = Failed to update setup engine executables. Program will exit.

• Another example of a log which results in the same error message:
  
  

  CopyFilesAndMaybeUpdatePermissions(): Attempt #20 failed. Error: Couldn't copy: <BOBJINSTALLPACKAGE>\setup.exe to: <BOBJINSTALLDIR>. Giving up. Error: Error updating installed version of the setup engine. Aborting.. Error: Can't update the installed setup engine executables. Aborting. Error: Failed to update setup engine executables. Program will exit. UI thread has terminated properly SqliteManifest's sqlite db is successfully closed at <BOBJINSTALLDIR>\InstallData\WorkingManifest.sqlite Closed manifest <BOBJNSTALLDIR>\InstallData\WorkingManifest.sqlite Exiting Windows wmain function

• The error might occure for SAP Data Services install/upgrade with error message: Failed to Upgrade - Failed to update setup engine executables. Program will exit.
  
  
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• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x (BI 4.0 / 4.1 / 4.2 / 4.3)
• Windows
• Linux / Unix 

Or

• SAP Information Platform Services 4.3
• SAP Data Services 4.3 
• Windows 

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