WSUS Offline stuck at "Listing IDs of missing updates"

[aragland]

Hello, I'm using Windows offline updater to install updates for my Vista 32 bit laptop because the standard Microsoft Windows update won't work. I choose to automatic reboot and recall and a new temp account was created and the updater ran again. Now it's stuck on listing id's of missing updates. It's been stuck on this for the past 3 hours. Any advice? Is it safe to exit the command prompt and restart machine under my account not the temp account and try again? Thanks.

[Gerby]

Hi aragland!

Did something happen in the meantime? Do you run the update on an older machine with not so many resources (Processor, RAM)? As you're using Windows Vista, I guess so. This can really take hours.

WSUS Offline Update uses functions provided by Windows to determine the needed updates. However, Microsoft has spoiled this process over the last months. You can find many other threads in this forum about this topic (e.g. viewtopic.php?t=5915).

For now, you can stop the process (Ctrl-C) and edit the file /client/static/StaticUpdateIds-wupre-w60.txt that has the following contents:

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3078601
3109094
3145739
3164033
3168965
3183431
3191203

(An empty line is required at the end of the file.)

Rerun the update afterwards.

Greetings
Gerby

[Darrell]

It did the same to me also, I stopped the process and run Defrag on my drive then went back and reran it and all worked just fine. I have to do this every time I run the update.

[servocrow]

I also had this experience of stalling while listing ID's. I had already set Windows Update to never look for updates. In frustration I opened a command prompt with elevated permissions (start orb, type cmd into the run box, right click on cmd.exe in the list and select run as administrator) when the cmd box opened I typed 'net stop wuauserv' (without the quotes) then pressed enter. Once the service was stopped the listing completed and the updates eventually finished.

I used the above method once the service was stopped I restarted WSUS installer and it worked fine...weird