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Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot

posted by martyb on Monday February 17 2020, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the broken-fixes-make-PCs-into-bricks dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Like a needy ex-partner that just won't let go, Microsoft's legacy OSes continue to cling to the Windows behemoth's ankles. Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 have once again been bashed with the borkage bat.

Users are reporting that the fix to fix the fix that broke the desktop wallpaper in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 has left systems unbootable after an apparent boot file deletion.

The fix-fixing fix (KB4539602) was unleashed at the end of last week, and some administrators have kicked off a deployment.

It has not gone well.

One Redditor remarked that 18 2008 R2 servers had fallen victim, while another reported 30 Windows 7 computers were refusing to boot after an install.

If you don't already have the 23 September 2019 (or later) SHA-2 update installed, you will probably be having a rather ungood day.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday February 17 2020, @04:27PM (3 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday February 17 2020, @04:27PM (#959199) Journal

    Every nondeterminism in software must have a rational cause and an explanation.

    My best guess is, those failing machines had an undetected infection of some kind.
    Obviously, Microsoft cannot test their updates against all possible combinations of government backdoors.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @04:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @04:49PM (#959206)

    >> those failing machines had an undetected infection of some kind.

    Undetected? The summary was very clear: they were running Microsoft Windows.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday February 17 2020, @06:51PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday February 17 2020, @06:51PM (#959243) Journal

    I'm more inclined to think they have finished developing an AI, expert system in coding.
    they asked the AI to secure the servers.
    the AI chose the shortest route.

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    • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday February 17 2020, @07:50PM

      by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday February 17 2020, @07:50PM (#959258) Journal

      That would be pretty lame. They should teach her some backtracking first. Or at least, combinators.
      Backtracking is for rich, combinators are for poor, and Microsoft is rich...

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