Why no reboot after 841873 (Task Scheduler patch)?
Joshua Knorr
patches without incident. However, a small group is experiencing some
anomalous behavior I'd like to get to the bottom of.
Our system are configured via GPO to automatically get patches from
Windows Update and reboot when necessary at 3 AM.
What first tipped me off is that HfNetChkPro says that these boxes
don't have the Task Scheduler patch (841873) installed. In the system
log I can find the following event:
Restart Required: To complete the installation of the following
updates, the computer will be restarted within five minutes. Until
this computer has been restarted, Windows cannot search for or
download new updates.
- Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express 6 SP1 (KB823353)
- Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB841873)
- Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB839645)
Which is great, except the fact that the system never reboots. I
investigate further and find the following lines in KB841873.log:
7.541: IsRebootRequiredForFileQueue: c:\winnt\system32\netapi32.dll
was delayed; reboot is required.
7.541: IsRebootRequiredForFileQueue: c:\winnt\system32\mstask.exe was
delayed; reboot is required.
7.541: DoInstallation: A reboot is required to complete the
installation of one or more files.
7.581: VerifySize: Unable to verify size: Source = NULL:
c:\winnt\oem16.cat
8.832: RebootNecessary = 1,WizardInput = 1 , DontReboot = 1,
ForceRestart = 0
From that last line, I'd conclude that the system is aware that the
box needs to be rebooted but that the restart is being suppresed for
some reason (DontReboot = 1). I can easily enough schedule these
systems to reboot by themselves, but I'd like to know why this is
happening so I don't have to do this manual intervention in the
future!
Joshua Knorr
Networking Services & Information Technologies
University of Chicago
Robert Aldwinckle
> was delayed; reboot is required.
> 7.541: IsRebootRequiredForFileQueue: c:\winnt\system32\mstask.exe was
> delayed; reboot is required.
Do you have each of those modules? What version and where?
Are you sure you have that component installed?
Here is an excerpt from a recent post about that:
<excerpt>
> How do I reinstall the Task Scheduler? It isn't listed in Software ->
> Windows NT Setup.
It's part of an IE component called the "Offline Browsing Pack".
<title>KB235536 - Task Scheduler Service on Windows NT</title>
(MSKB Boolean search for
"offline browsing pack" scheduler
)
BTW this is off-topic for this newsgroup and a FAQ for the WindowsNT
newsgroups:
(Google Groups search for
install insubject:scheduler author:MVP group:microsoft.*.windowsnt.*
)
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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