Stupid sysadmin tip of the day
Nov. 18th, 2003 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomStupid sysadmin tip of the day: Actually READ the error message.
The long version: "Windows Update" on my box was failing to work for the latest 4 security patches on this one machine. I tried and re-tried them. Each time I saw the bold, red, letters I just threw up my hands and closed the window, assuming that I would have time to fix this some other day, or just assuming that this ancient box has just plan degraded to the point where Windows Update wasn't going to work any more and that it was fruitless. Then I went away for 2 weeks, leaving the box powered off. Today I re-ran them and they still failed. Lo and behold, this time I actually read the entire error message. They were failing due to lack of disk space. Ugh. I cleaned out about a gig of crap files and re-ran Windows Update. All fixed.
The long version: "Windows Update" on my box was failing to work for the latest 4 security patches on this one machine. I tried and re-tried them. Each time I saw the bold, red, letters I just threw up my hands and closed the window, assuming that I would have time to fix this some other day, or just assuming that this ancient box has just plan degraded to the point where Windows Update wasn't going to work any more and that it was fruitless. Then I went away for 2 weeks, leaving the box powered off. Today I re-ran them and they still failed. Lo and behold, this time I actually read the entire error message. They were failing due to lack of disk space. Ugh. I cleaned out about a gig of crap files and re-ran Windows Update. All fixed.
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That'll do it.
Date: 2003-11-18 11:35 am (UTC)