downloading validating updates hangs

[sakkthi]

Hi

Update generator hangs at Downloading and validating updates 33 of 141 for office.

Please check screenshot.



Thanks

[hbuhrmester]

I don't think, that wget or the download script just hangs, but it may take some time to get a response.

• Most of the wget messages go into the download log, which is the file wsusoffline/log/download.log
• With the option --no-verbose (-nv), wget won't give much feedback. Usually, only successful downloads and errors are reported, but no progress reports.
• Some files are rather large, and you won't get feedback, until they are completely downloaded.
• With standard settings, wget uses 20 tries with a timeout of 900 seconds each. At worst, you have to wait 5 hours before getting a response. The manual pages describe these options like:

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-v
--verbose
    Turn on verbose output, with all the available data.  The default
    output is verbose.

-nv
--no-verbose
    Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use -q for that),
    which means that error messages and basic information still get
    printed.

-t number
--tries=number
    Set number of retries to number.  Specify 0 or inf for infinite
    retrying.  The default is to retry 20 times, with the exception of
    fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" (404), which
    are not retried.

-T seconds
--timeout=seconds
    Set the network timeout to seconds seconds.  This is equivalent to
    specifying --dns-timeout, --connect-timeout, and --read-timeout,
    all at the same time.

    When interacting with the network, Wget can check for timeout and
    abort the operation if it takes too long.  This prevents anomalies
    like hanging reads and infinite connects.  The only timeout enabled
    by default is a 900-second read timeout.  Setting a timeout to 0
    disables it altogether.  Unless you know what you are doing, it is
    best not to change the default timeout settings.

If you like to experiment yourself, you could open the file wsusoffline/cmd/DownloadUpdates.cmd with a text editor, and change line 213 (as of version 9.6) from:

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set DLDR_NVOPT=-nv

to:

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set DLDR_NVOPT=-v -t 5 -T 60

to get progress reports and more resonable timeouts.

[aker]

Please open the Task Manager and check, if your network connection is active.

[sakkthi]

I don't think, that wget or the download script just hangs, but it may take some time to get a response.

• Most of the wget messages go into the download log, which is the file wsusoffline/log/download.log
• With the option --no-verbose (-nv), wget won't give much feedback. Usually, only successful downloads and errors are reported, but no progress reports.
• Some files are rather large, and you won't get feedback, until they are completely downloaded.
• With standard settings, wget uses 20 tries with a timeout of 900 seconds each. At worst, you have to wait 5 hours before getting a response. The manual pages describe these options like:

It took around 3 hours to complete that.

Now facing another issue.

I am missing about 1.5 Gbs update not downloaded for windows 8.1 (by verifying with source computer.)

Thanks for the info.

[boco]

WSUSOU does not download every update, only the security-critical ones. Which ones, decides MS in their catalog.

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