RE: Updates Fail

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From: EGeorgeR (EGeorgeR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/21/04


Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:33:04 -0800

I don't even know the meaning of "BITS service."

"George" wrote:

> i have been having the same problem. Do you know if the BITS service is
> started on the machine that it's not working on? if it's not started can you
> start it or does it give you an error?
>
> "EGeorgeR" wrote:
>
> > Failed Updates seem to be a common problem. The universal recommendation is:
> > From Start/Run run this exact command:
> >
> > notepad %windir%\windowsupdate.log
> >
> > See if you can find any clues and/or error massages/numbers there and
> > post e.g. the last 30 lines of that log here.
> >
> > I have not seen that anyone's problem has been solved, but here are the last
> > 30 lines:
> >
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:26-0500 956 50c PT: Using server URL
> > https://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ClientWebService/client.asmx
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:26-0500 956 50c Add header for accept-encoding: xpress
> > succeeded
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:26-0500 956 50c DetectCompressionType returning type 1,
> > hr=0x0
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c WU client add update
> > {B36AEDAC-318A-41BC-8392-8369A44CC10B}.102 to search result
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c WU client add update
> > {BBE805EE-2CF7-4110-9BE8-4FE32B144E5A}.100 to search result
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c update
> > {7477AF62-8F9B-4F32-9DAF-7AB452E52396}.119 is pruned out due to potential
> > supersedence
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c WU client found 2 updates and 10
> > categories in search
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c WU client finished Searching for update
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c AU Detection callback: 2 updates detected
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c Setting next AU detection timeout to
> > 2004-12-21 19:18:58
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c WU client calls back to search call
> > AutomaticUpdates with code Call complete and error 0
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:27-0500 956 50c WU client completed and deleted call
> > {1FF133EE-9886-46D8-BE6D-E4AB1AFF24BD}
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:32-0500 956 50c REPORT EVENT:
> > {B75DDE36-951C-454D-B2A5-2CBB5261B096} 140 2004-12-20
> > 16:42:27-0500 1 147 101 {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} 0 0 AutomaticUpdates Success Software Synchronization Agent has finished detecting items.
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:41-0500 956 728 AU received event of 1
> > 2004-12-20 16:42:41-0500 956 728 Successfully launched client for directive 4
> > 2004-12-20 16:47:27-0500 1340 334 Out of proc datastore is shutting down
> > 2004-12-20 16:47:28-0500 1340 334 Out of proc datastore is now inactive
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:23-0500 956 50c Successfully opened event cache file at
> > C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\{CF3926F3-A1C6-415F-A18B-CFF5F563A196}.bin for reading.
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:23-0500 472 72c Trying to make out of proc datastore active
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 472 72c Out of proc datastore is now active
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 956 50c PT: Using serverID
> > {9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77}
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 956 50c PT: Using server URL
> > https://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ClientWebService/client.asmx
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 956 50c PT: Using serverID
> > {9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77}
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 956 50c PT: Using server URL
> > https://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ClientWebService/client.asmx
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 956 50c URL for server is
> > http://v5stats.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ReportingWebService/ReportingWebService.asmx
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:24-0500 956 50c Trying to upload 4 events using cached
> > cookie.
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:38-0500 956 50c DetectCompressionType returning type 0,
> > hr=0x1
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:38-0500 956 50c Successfully uploaded 4 events.
> > 2004-12-20 16:51:38-0500 956 50c Deleted event cache file at
> > C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\{CF3926F3-A1C6-415F-A18B-CFF5F563A196}.bin.
> > 2004-12-20 16:56:24-0500 472 72c Out of proc datastore is shutting down
> > 2004-12-20 16:56:25-0500 472 72c Out of proc datastore is now inactive
> >



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