Operation failed. (Error code 2359299 - Result code 3)

[daxgames]

I am using test-kitchen to test recipes using WinRM Elevated with Windows 2012R2. kitchen converge works the first time I run it and applies patches correctly and reboots the server.

Upon reboot Windows update claims there are 16 more patches available for install. Running kitchen converge a second time installs one update, verified using systeminfo, and results in the error:

Note: Before the error the Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update changes to to indicate a reboot is required to continue

       Recipe: wsus-client::update
         * wsus_client_update[WSUS updates] action download
           - downloading 2 update(s)
         * wsus_client_update[WSUS updates] action install

           ================================================================================
           Error executing action `install` on resource 'wsus_client_update[WSUS updates]'
           ================================================================================

           RuntimeError
           ------------
           Operation failed. (Error code 2359299 - Result code 3)

           Resource Declaration:
           ---------------------
           # In C:/Users/vagrant/AppData/Local/Temp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/recipes/update.rb

            25: wsus_client_update 'WSUS updates' do
            26:   node['wsus_client']['update'].each { |property, value| send(property, value) }
            27: end

           Compiled Resource:
           ------------------
           # Declared in C:/Users/vagrant/AppData/Local/Temp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/recipes/update.rb:25:in `from_file'

           wsus_client_update("WSUS updates") do
             action [:download, :install]
             updated true
             default_guard_interpreter :default
             declared_type :wsus_client_update
             cookbook_name "wsus-client"
             recipe_name "update"
             download_timeout 3600
             install_timeout 3600
             handle_reboot false
             reboot_delay 1
           end

           System Info:
           ------------
           chef_version=13.6.4
           platform=windows
           platform_version=6.3.9600
           ruby=ruby 2.4.2p198 (2017-09-14 revision 59899) [x64-mingw32]
           program_name=C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client
           executable=C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client

Accessing the Windows GUI and pressing Install Updates without a reboot in Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update claims to install the remaining updates but this is not apparent in systeminfo output. However checking for updates now says 67 updates are now available.

Rebooting and rerunning kitchen converge results in the same error above except this time it is during the download action.

Possible explanation but how to prevent it.

[sredne]

I am also seeing this issue. According to https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/security-updates/windowsupdateservices/18127393 it translates to Result Code 0x240003, which means it completed to install, but with errors. Should we have an option to ignore the errors and have it not fail out?

[daxgames]

My thoughts exactly.

[Annih]

Did you try with the handle_reboot property set to true?

[daxgames]

I did and it did not help.

[sredne]

I would like to have the ability to run the wsus-update without needing a reboot during the chef-client run and control that outside of that download/install call.