Error running configuration wizard during sp1 up gradation

Hi,

We have installed the latest Cumulative Updates (April 2012 version) on SharePoint Server 2010 farm. We installed both the Foundation and Server hot fix package on all application servers and then the web front end.

Next step was running the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard on the application server. The wizard started out just fine, but in step 9 (“The farm is being upgraded in the timer service process. The task is  41.23% completed.”) where it subsequently failed (Configuration failed). 

 The error message was:

“An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products.”

Reading in the logs revealed what seemed to be why the upgrade failed, but no hint on how to fix it:

“01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                    Resource id to be retrieved is UpgradeTaskFailConfigSyncDisplayLabel for language English (United States)
01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                    Resource retrieved id UpgradeTaskFailConfigSyncDisplayLabel is Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products.
01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                  Leaving function StringResourceManager.GetResourceString
01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                  Entering function Common.BuildExceptionMessage
01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                    Entering function StringResourceManager.GetResourceString
01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                      Resource id to be retrieved is ExceptionInfo for language English (United States)
01/04/2011 15:27:39  14  INF                      Resource retrieved id ExceptionInfo is An exception of type {0} was thrown.  Additional exception information: {1}”

After googling our teammate has found fix for this issue as below.

Fix:  While troubleshooting the issue, we found out that the database was running out of space. We increased the space of the database. Even then the issue wasn’t resolved. We had to run a Power Shell as found in the below article. This fixed the issue and we were able to complete the Configuration Wizard.

Below is the reference link which helped us in resolving this issue.

http://www.uccorner.com/220/sharepoint/error-installing-cumulative-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-19944