technion

Hey guys,
I have got the below in my svcpack.log. Why did mofcomp return 1?
Because I killed it. Our service pack ran for over an hour without
anything happening, at the "Running postinstall processes" screen. So
I killed it, rolled back the service pack, then tried again. At round
two, I wasn't prepared to rollback, so I checked the log, and saw that
"starting process" was the last line, referring to mofcomp.exe.
I opened task manager, killed it mofcomp.exe (a few times) and then
the service pack continued.


The beauty is that postreboot, I opened up my command prompt and
copy+pasted these lines, and they immediately executed with a success.


SOoooo, my server is OK now, but, why in the world did it hang here?
mofcomp seemed to just pause indefinitely during the service pack. I
have noted also that mofcomp ran many more times without incident.


723.156: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3*core.mof
1170.125: Return Code = 1
1170.125: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3*dt.mof
1405.063: Return Code = 1
1405.063: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3*isapi.mof
1510.734: Return Code = 1
1510.734: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\ii*sadmin.mof
1660.563: Return Code = 1
1660.563: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\as*p.mof
1985.203: Return Code = 1
1985.203: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3*core.mfl
1999.609: Return Code = 1
1999.609: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3*dt.mfl
2009.766: Return Code = 0
2009.766: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3*isapi.mfl
2110.469: Return Code = 1
2110.469: Starting process: C:\windows\system32\wbem\mofco*mp.exe
C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\ii*sadmin.mfl
2129.844: Return Code = 0


PS Does MS have a standard page/do***ent on anything involving
standard issues with SP1? I spent a lot of time finding that "ASP.NET
Prohibited" tag in the IIS manager, and it would have been handy to
have been forwarned about it, with something other than "Service Pack
1 increases you security" that I find everywhere.