I was trying to restore my WSS v3 dev server today after having some issues with IIS (see previous post)
After installing the the Wss v3 SP2 and the wizard got to the end i got an error that the timer service wasn't started and it was unsuccesful.
But truly i forgot to restart the Timer ser vice before clicking on the SP2 install.
But then i said i would give it a try and try to restore my site from backup but unfortunately NO GO and got the error:
An error has occurred on the server.http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177
I copied the link and i went to the link and and this is what the page title reads:
Deploy software updates for SharePoint Foundation 2010 hm... MS you got both the content and the link wrong
So it seems my SP2 install didn't finish so to finish it you would have to run the :
stsadm inplace upgrade
after running that a prompt popped up on the screen and the installation finished
cvcvvb