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wumgr repeatedly fails to get the job done on win10

Open whitis opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

wumgr fails multiple times during initial set of updates on nearly virgin windows 10 2004 install. This will likely reproduce using a clone of a win 7 virtual machine or just a fresh Win10 install in a virtual machine. A handful of drivers will be different but the results likely will be the same.

  • Started on a windows 7 laptop (toshiba satellite C655-S5082) from an estate that had hardly been used except to play solitare.
  • Used the windows media creation tool (yesterday) to create a Win 10 DVD from windows 7.
  • Ran setup from DVD without rebooting. asked to download updates during install but it didn't.
  • select wipe everything
  • install chocolatey
  • install a handful of other packages (that propably aren't necessary to reproduce) using choco: 7zip, adobereader, audacity,avastfreeantivirus, bleachbit,calibry,curl,cutepdf,ffmpeg,gedit,gimp,googlechrome,iinfrarecorder,inkscape,jitsi,jre8,keepassxc,krita,libreoffice,malwarebytes,okular,openssh (-params '"/SSHServerFeature"),peazip,thunderbird,vlc,wget,windirstat,wsl,wsl-ubuntu-2004 (failed),wsl-ubuntu-1804 (--ignore-checksums),zoom
  • install wumgr using choco
  • run wumgr, select all 8 updates, and click install. Inspite of having an 84GB update, wumgr says it "may take a few minutes" and give no meaningful progress indication.

Seems to hang indefinitely. Had to go into windows update repeatedly to get things going. Here is a nice screenshot of the first time. update_stalled

Rerunning wumgr after restart, stalled again. and again. Failed downloads (not reported) and restart required (not reported) seem to be the stumbling blocks.

whitis avatar Oct 10 '20 17:10 whitis

I'm also having issues, Wumgr seems to have changed enough things that I can't undo them, and now Wumgr doesn't work nor does the base Windows Update functionality.

Coldblackice avatar Nov 16 '20 05:11 Coldblackice

Do you actually need to run this tool on a nearly clean installation? People who resort to these kind of tools look for on demand or whenever-I-want update options, which MS doesn't provide anymore. I suggest you try a clean install and use the native update solution, then use this for future updates, whenever you want.

ViperCode7 avatar Nov 30 '20 02:11 ViperCode7