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If Launcher cannot send a lot to the server, that log will get stuck. This sometimes prevents subsequent logs from transmitting. #445 is an instance of this,
Osquery sometimes mis-encodes utf8 data https://github.com/facebook/osquery/issues/5288 This is a broad attempt to repair log files that exhibit that issue. This runs against the entire log file. Hopefully, there isn’t going...
I've had a couple reports that the windows MSI installs, but then fails to start. Producing an error like:  Launcher needs admin permission. I _think_ I've seen this...
From a conversation on slack, running something like `select * from windows_eventlog where channel = "Security";` seem to leave launcher locked and unresponsive to future queries. I have not dug...
Starting to rough in some ad-hoc downloads. This required a bunch of refactoring on the autoupdater code. * Refactor a bunch of launcher options parsing from `runLauncher` to `options`
During the update process, launcher exits to let the service manager restart it. When this happens, there is a panic. While it's harmless, it's confusing noise. ``` ts=2020-08-14T13:10:44.5879133Z caller=handler.go:95 severity=info...
Launcher postinstall work. Replaced by https://github.com/kolide/launcher/pull/635 Need to look through this to see if there's anything else to extract
I've had a customer report launcher hangs after a windows update. It might include the error `service failed to start due to the following error: %%1053` from service control manager
Chatting with a customer, they point out a couple of odd things: https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/9bf773782d2c7834c9a1bb7244b4f0b6595c4763/cmd/launcher/svc_windows.go#L36 happens _before_ the logs are leveled. This creates a weird case where people get one thing called...
Both launcher and osquery keep per-machine databases. However, Time Machine and Migration Assistant can cause these to be backed up to new machines. This is seldom correct. This is a...