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Packer plugin for installing Windows updates
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Do not restart after updates #127

Open zenmaster24 opened 1 year ago

zenmaster24 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Having an issue where the recent windows update KB5025230 is causing the instance to take a long time to reboot - Packer errors with the message retry count exhausted. Last err: http response error: 401 - invalid content type.

Is it possible to set the windows-update provisioner to not reboot after the updates are applied, and instead handle a restart with the windows-restart provisioner which has a restart_timeout parameter?

Thanks

rgl commented 1 year ago

No. Handling restarts is a typical requirement for applying windows updates. It has to be handled by this provisioner because packer does not have loops.

Did you try the restart_timeout parameter on this provisioner)?

zenmaster24 commented 1 year ago

Did you try the restart_timeout parameter on this provisioner)?

I did - didnt work.

It has to be handled by this provisioner because packer does not have loops.

You can use the flag IgnoreReboot with Install-WindowsUpdate - are you saying this provisioner will persist across reboots requested by an update that has been installed?

rgl commented 1 year ago

Did you try the restart_timeout parameter on this provisioner)?

I did - didnt work.

Oh that's a bummer :-(

It has to be handled by this provisioner because packer does not have loops.

You can use the flag IgnoreReboot with Install-WindowsUpdate - are you saying this provisioner will persist across reboots requested by an update that has been installed?

Not sure what you mean be persist, but, this provider will loop installing updates and rebooting until the updates are installed.