mentioned it in the thread I ve seen th

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< Stefano Bonicatti> mentioned it in the thread I ve seen this happen when you ve attempted to upgrade and the service is actively running we should cut an issue to try and fix that behavior as osquery really shouldn t require a reboot when installing upgrading stoping uninstalling

shortstack · Answer

agreed shouldn t require reboot

seph · Answer

Maybe As said I ve see the service controller wedge

shortstack · Answer

what do you mean wedge

seph · Answer

I never wrote this up but If you have the service control panel up and an MSI tries to change a service definition or swap it something gets irrevocably wedged I didn t trace this to whether it was all service control stuff or just the service in question

seph · Answer

But somewhere there s a big ugly single thread without adequate protection and it can corrupt itself

seph · Answer

I m convinced this is why a lot of commercial windows tools insist on rebooting

seph · Answer

I have not toggled the kolide MSI to requiring a reboot but I m tempted to

shortstack · Answer

ugh

seph · Answer

Yeah I was displeased

shortstack · Answer

it just seems crazy to me that it s only happened once after literally thousands

seph · Answer

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seph · Answer

Sorta implies it s may not be easy to adjust

shortstack · Answer

yea