I can neither confirm nor deny that, but interrupting a service pack install, most definitely does crash the box :)...at least XP SP2
From: Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patches I have had to reboot systems for patches that sat for hours at one point and reset them. Either is starts were is left off or reapplies the patch(es). I had yet to have a system crash because I had to reboot on a "stuck" update. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patches I don't know I finally re-booted trough ILO and they re-started ok, after the re-boot it did finish the update all ok now! On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have seen the .NET patches take forever. Are they stuck on those? From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patches I have 2 * 2008 Servers that have been sitting at 2 out of 3, 0% for about an hour! Thinking about ILO re-boot? Stefan On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Anyone have any issues yet? Sam -- Stefan Jafs -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
