Re: Batch file won't finish installing security updates

From: Mike O'Neill (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:42:58 -0700

David,
You hit the nail on the head. When I looked at the
following
Local security policy > User Rights Assignment > Debug
programs
on users machines that didn't work, sure enough the "Debug
programs" policy was blank. As soon as I gave the local
Admin rights, bounced the box, the batch file ran fine.
Nice job!!!
Thanks...

MikeO

>-----Original Message-----
>Some users reported that if you grant the local
Administrators group the
>Debug programs (don't recall the exact name of the Right)
User Right,
>this stopped the never-ending-update problem.
>
>mike.oneill@state.mn.us wrote:
>>
>> When running the following batch file I've run into a
very
>> strange problem.
>>
>> @echo off
>> setlocal
>> set PATHTOFIXES=Path
>> %PATHTOFIXES%\Windows2000-KB826232-x86-ENU.exe /z /q
>> %PATHTOFIXES%\Windows2000-KB825119-x86-ENU.exe /z /q
>> %PATHTOFIXES%\Windows2000-KB828035-x86-ENU.exe /z /q
>> %PATHTOFIXES%\Windows2000-KB824141-x86-ENU.exe /z /q
>> %PATHTOFIXES%\Windows2000-KB823182-x86-ENU.exe /z /q
>> %PATHTOFIXES%\qchain.exe qchainlog.txt
>>
>> On most of the machine in my office it works fine, but
on
>> about 20 Gateway 9500's and another 25 Dell GX150's I
have
>> the following problem.
>> After the first patch is run the batch file stalls. What
>> seems to be happening is that update.exe keeps running
>> using 100% of the processor and never quits which keeps
>> the next file from running. If you go into task manager
>> and kill update.exe the next file runs but then stalls
>> just like the first. On all the rest of my machines
>> update.exe terminates and the batch file runs and
finishes
>> the install of all the patches. I've searched the web
high
>> and low but can't find any reference to this happening.
>> Does anyone have any idea what's going on with
update.exe
>> and why it won't stop running???
>>
>> MikeO
>.
>

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