kolide / launcher

Osquery launcher, autoupdater, and packager
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Sometimes launcher on Windows cannot find a valid osquery executable #1503

Closed RebeccaMahany closed 3 months ago

RebeccaMahany commented 11 months ago

We see logs on osquery extension startup showing:

  1. no osquery updates found
  2. the originally installed osquery executable is determined to not be executable: fullBinaryPath not executable. Returning nil
  3. launcher attempts to start up osquery with an empty string for the osqueryd path, which does not work

The simplest explanation could be that the timeout is just too short on Windows sometimes (maybe/especially when the system is in modern standby?).

To address this issue:

RebeccaMahany commented 3 months ago

Addressed by https://github.com/kolide/launcher/pull/1788