SAP Solution Manager 7.1 - Path component contains reserved character (':'): K:NaN.exe

Problem

While installing SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SR 1 on Windows with SQL today I ran into the following error trying to run the Installer.

An error occurred while processing option SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SR1 > SAP Systems > MS SQL Server > Central System > Central System( Last error reported by the step: Path component contains reserved character (':'): K:NaN.exe). You can now:

• Choose Retry to repeat the current step.
• Choose Log Files to get more information about the error.
• Stop the option and continue with it later.

Log files are written to C:/Program Files/sapinst_instdir/SOLMAN71SR1/SYSTEM/MSS/CENTRAL/AS/sapinst_dev.log

Solution

From the log sapinst_dev.log it looks like it fails to find the JAVA_HOME Path. 

TRACE      2012-05-31 11:53:48.877
NWDiagAgent.getJavaHome()
TRACE      2012-05-31 11:53:48.888 NWOption(sapjvmHome).value()sTRACE      2012-05-31 11:53:48.888 NWOption.getDefaultValue(sapjvmHome)
TRACE[W]   2012-05-31 11:53:48.891 [ianxcreghelper.cpp:283]           CNTRegistryKey::CNTRegistryKey(., HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit, ...) Error 2 (The system cannot find the file specified.
) in execution of a 'RegOpenKeyEx' function, line (78), with parameter (Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit).
TRACE[W]   2012-05-31 11:53:48.892 [ianxcreghelper.cpp:465]
           CNTRegistryKey::CNTRegistryKey(., HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit, ...)
The subkey 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit' does not exist on the 'localhost' host.
ERROR      2012-05-31 11:53:48.912 [syxxcpath.cpp:63]
           CSyPathComponent::CSyPathComponent(const iastring& stringValue, bool mightBePrefix)
           lib=syslib module=syslib
FSL-02107  Path component contains reserved character (':'): K:NaN.exe

That wasn't my first guess of course because if you read the Selection 1.1 New Features of

SAP - You are not authorized to make changes

Ran into a problem today during a fresh setup of SAP Solution Manager and I found very little about it on google so I thought I would share.

While following the SOLMAN_SETUP Transaction I started to get an error saying "You are not authorized to make changes" when trying to make any changes. This was after I had restarted the configuration and really puzzled me as it had worked a few minutes before and the account I was logged in with was 'ddic'.

After some investigation thinking I had messed something up in the SAP installation or the system corrupted something I noticed that when I reran the SOLMAN_SETUP Transaction I got the following login prompt from Netweaver.

I finally figured out that the SSO Browser Logon ticket was the problem. I had opened another SAP Portal Instance to look at some settings and that had caused the issue. Easy solution to just completely close all the browser windows and rerun the SOLMAN_SETUP Transaction, I had just been I had been over thinking the problem.

More on the SAP Browser Ticket.