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Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire"
yuna49 writes "Various people are reporting that the MS07-040 patch for .NET released on Tuesday can cause a variety of seemingly unrelated problems. According to the SANS Internet Storm Center 'the reports we got so far seem not to lead to any specific thing that happens in many cases, just various things going haywire.' Some commentators on The Register's report of this story indicate that the patch failed to install at all, while others report things like the mouse suddenly failing to work or long periods of hard drive thrashing. In some cases a hard reboot seems to fix the problem, but other reports suggest that a reinstallation of the .NET framework itself is required. The problems may be related to the MSCORSVW.EXE process which recompiles all the .NET assemblies when the patch is downloaded. While the recompilations are supposed to run as a background task, in some instances the recompilation will drive the processor to 100% usage."
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Same here. I imagine this story has inspired many a resounding "d'oh!"
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"If Assumption the mother of all fuck ups, then surely it is also the father of all Microsoft engineering."
While the recompilations are supposed to run as a background task, in some instances the recompilation will drive the processor to 100% usage.
Sounds like Microsoft are Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Being Root
They'd better not have nicked my code or they're in trouble. It's GPL 3 I'll have you know...
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Hmh. That sound funnier in finnish.
You don't know what you don't know.
Come on... We all know the routine here on M$ boxes... Reboot it a couple times until we realize it is shot... Stick in the repair cd so that it can finish the job of killing it... Then wax the whole thing and reinstall... Explain to the user that all their data is gone and when they get that "deer caught in headlights" look, tell them they should have backed up to their data... Hm... Missing anything here??
Just a typical day in windows land...
Should I just install Gentoo again!?!
Didn't read the rest of your note, but yes.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
1) Retry
2) Restart
3) Reboot
4) Reconfigure
5) Repatch
6) Reinstall (app)
7) Reformat
8) Rebuild (os + app)
9) Retry (everything from 1-8)
10) Relinquish/Reassign/Reject (project/task)
11) Resign
12) Resume/Resumé
Friday 13th, anyone?
How anyone would install an MS patch without first performing some exocism and have a Voodoo priest sacrifice a chicken is beyond me anyway. I have been doing this for years now and so far, no incompatibilities.
Ok, using Ubuntu and Gentoo might have something to do with it, too, but I'm fairly confident of my chicken patching technique.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm picturing the classic "Far Side" cartoon depicting the herd of lemmings (herd? is that what they group in?) rushing down the beach and into the sea with singleminded determination, except for one smartass lemming wearing an inner tube flotation thingie and smiling knowingly at the viewer.
Of course, I did the singleminded-lemming thing Tuesday at home, and nothing's puking visibly yet. But on the gripping hand, the military network environment I work with tends to very carefully evaluate these Microsoft patches before letting them loose on their systems. I guess the network admins want to be the sole authority on unplanned outages, rather than outsourcing to the vendor.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Anything sounds funny in finnish. :p
You know things are getting bad when even supposedly technical types start to use this kind of language. In a few years we can expect to see serious techie-to-techie channels postings saying things like "The CPU went kerblooie" and "The disk became discombobulated" and "Don't apply this patch if you're not a real computer genius..."
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Only here do people gloat about how incompetent they are at being a sysadmin.
If your processor is going to be recompiling stuff constantly anyway, you might aswell use Gentoo ;).
I'm another victim, I think. On Wednesday I noticed that several of my applications that use the .NET framework stopped working, such as avi.net, paint.net and Audacity. Then, when I tried to update iTunes I got a message about the .NET installations being "incomplete".
.NET framwork(s) and finally had to uninstall/reinstall all the .NET stuff. I had to reboot several times during the process. Then it really got weird.
I tried reinstalling the apps, which didn't work, then I tried to "repair" the
I've been thinking that MS would come up with something that would make XP less useful - some sort of bug or new type of unpatchable vulnerability to force Windows users to adopt Vista. Maybe this is the beginning of the end of XP.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This seems stupid. If you're going to suggest Linux, at least tell him to install it.
Upon installing patches on wednesday in vista, my system BSOD'd. I was happy to see the familiar screen in vista. It brought back so many memories.
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My refridgerator has been leaking and not catching water in the drip pan ... is it related? How can I find out what its doing? Should I just install Gentoo again!?!
It is impossible to comment intelligently on this because no one with intelligence uses Windoze. Therefore Slashdot should ignore Windoze.