F12 Developer Tools crashes in IE11 Win7 32-bit with "An error has ocurredJSPlugin.3005"

bradhenslee commented 9 years ago

After opening IE11 on the 32-bit Win7 ievms image and starting the F12 Developer Tools, I get an error ("An error has ocurredJSPlugin.3005...") with its stack trace in the DOM Inspector panel, and the panel becomes unresponsive. The error text in the panel wasn't selectable so I couldn't copy the full stack trace to paste here, but the issue appears to be identical to the one discussed here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-windows_7/imposible-use-f12-developer-tools-exception-in/09b4f305-e436-4615-a8a5-705b0bc85bbd

As discussed in that thread, the problem can be resolved by manually installing KB3008923, which can be downloaded here: 32 bit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=45134 64 bit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=45154

I installed the 32-bit version and had no issues afterward.

rocketraman commented 9 years ago

Same issue (and resolution) here, thanks for the analysis and link. It would be great if this update was installed automatically on the VM.

gabrielecirulli commented 9 years ago

:+1:, I ended up reinstalling all of my VMs thinking it would fix this and then discovered that it wasn't the case before I found out this was the real issue. It'd totally help to have the script install it automatically.

xdissent commented 9 years ago

Yeah that's lame. I'm experimenting now to see if we can't just run an automatic windows update on first boot rather than installing a particular patch. If that's overkill I'll certainly consider adding this one though.