This solution contains no resources scoped for a web application and can not be retracted from a particular web application
While retracting/ deploying sharepoint solution using visual studio or stsadm command you might have got following errors , such as 1.If you are using "'Retract Solution': C:\Windows\Temp\solution-b254f31c-6d03-41c0-869c-e0755c54a1e0\SOLUTION.wsp could not be created because the contents could not be found under id fc52e867-4f3f-4d65-a348-2406fd83635e in the configuration database." 2.If you are using stsadm command "This solution contains no resources scoped for a web application and can not be retracted from a particular web application" The above two errors are belonging to represent the same issue. This issue occurs because of improper activation of the feature. When you deployed the same solution or some other solution on the site, it might have given you the message as 'deployed successfully', but might not have activated feature properly. In order to fix this issue use the following stsadm command and retract and remove those s