8/15/2013 windows update broke my build server.

Our build server unfortunately had automatic updates turned on and last
night’s batch of updates broke catfile generation using the win8 WDK
inf2cat program, for w8 builds. At least it broke them on my server. Your
mileage may vary. The same build server was happy to build the same driver
packages for win7 without inf2cat refusing to generate a cat file.

Uninstalling all of the 8/15 updates appears to have fixed the problem. I
have turned updates off on that system until further notice. The server is
running 2008 R2.

I have basically no more information to share than that. There were more
than 10 update packages installed and I don’t have the time or patience to
determine which one broke by build system.

Mark Roddy

Yes, there is one update in this batch specifically addressing
certificates and stuff. IIRC something like enabling SHA256 certs in
Win7 & 2008 R2.
– pa

On 15-Aug-2013 22:54, Mark Roddy wrote:

Our build server unfortunately had automatic updates turned on and last
night’s batch of updates broke catfile generation using the win8 WDK
inf2cat program, for w8 builds. At least it broke them on my server.
Your mileage may vary. The same build server was happy to build the same
driver packages for win7 without inf2cat refusing to generate a cat file.

Uninstalling all of the 8/15 updates appears to have fixed the problem.
I have turned updates off on that system until further notice. The
server is running 2008 R2.

I have basically no more information to share than that. There were more
than 10 update packages installed and I don’t have the time or patience
to determine which one broke by build system.

Mark Roddy

Odd that this patch only breaks Win8 cat file generation. VS was happy to
sign the same driver for Win7. I suspect this is going to be more trouble
down the road.

Mark Roddy

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Pavel A. wrote:

> Yes, there is one update in this batch specifically addressing
> certificates and stuff. IIRC something like enabling SHA256 certs in Win7 &
> 2008 R2.
> – pa
>
>
>
> On 15-Aug-2013 22:54, Mark Roddy wrote:
>
>> Our build server unfortunately had automatic updates turned on and last
>> night’s batch of updates broke catfile generation using the win8 WDK
>> inf2cat program, for w8 builds. At least it broke them on my server.
>> Your mileage may vary. The same build server was happy to build the same
>> driver packages for win7 without inf2cat refusing to generate a cat file.
>>
>> Uninstalling all of the 8/15 updates appears to have fixed the problem.
>> I have turned updates off on that system until further notice. The
>> server is running 2008 R2.
>>
>> I have basically no more information to share than that. There were more
>> than 10 update packages installed and I don’t have the time or patience
>> to determine which one broke by build system.
>>
>> Mark Roddy
>>
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Thanks for the heads up Mark.

Sigh. I hit this too. reminiscent of another failure around SHA256.??

Looks like this KB package: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2862966

I removed it and can now inf2cat successfully.

FWIW, INF2CAT does not give a useful error for this failure when you hit it.

??? Signability test complete.

??? Errors:
??? None

??? Warnings:
??? None

??? Unable to save the catalog.
??? Signability test failed.

On 17-Aug-2013 04:40, Bryan Woodruff wrote:

Looks like this KB package: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2862966
I removed it and can now inf2cat successfully.

Yes, this one. So it disables use of MD5 for the purpose of code signing…
– pa