Geoff Lane wrote:
> Has anybody ever seen updatemanager die promptly after having attempted to
> Cancel an apparently stuck patch run? I've left it for hours and it still
> displays the silly message "This may take a moment".
>
> Who have they got writing this stuff? It's been years and still there are
> patches that updatemanager/smpatch will fail to install (not queue for the
> next reboot, actually fail to install) yet when you do a manual patchadd
> there is no problem whatsoever.
>
> This is getting beyond a joke. Is there no quality control at all? Is the
> patch team being bribed by Microsoft?
>
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It appears, unfortunately, that things are going downhill fast
everywhere. A companies success depends on the high quality of
education of its employees.