Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire" 212
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."
JOHNNY 5 (Score:0, Funny)
Nickname for the Patch (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sonofa... (Score:3, Funny)
mother of all f.uck ups (Score:1, Funny)
CPU usage (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like Microsoft are Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Being Root [slashdot.org]
They'd better not have nicked my code or they're in trouble. It's GPL 3 I'll have you know...
Re:100% CPU ? (Score:3, Funny)
Remember kids, saving clock cycles is like putting money in the bank.
Hmh. That sound funnier in finnish.
Shit on it... (Score:4, Funny)
Simple solution to the problem... (Funny) (Score:5, Funny)
Just a typical day in windows land...
Re:Sonofa... (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't read the rest of your note, but yes.
Re:So That's It (Score:4, Funny)
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
Re:Shit on it... (Score:5, Funny)
Duh. Cared to look at the date? (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Sit on it... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:100% CPU ? (Score:1, Funny)
Technical term: "Haywire?" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sit on it... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sonofa... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shit on it... (Score:5, Funny)
Aha! Any second now your system will be shutti
Re:Sonofa... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:So That's It (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:JOHNNY 5 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sonofa... (Score:4, Funny)
Impossibility to Intelligently Comment (Score:0, Funny)