Patch Failure Reason Codes for Windows

Learn more about the Patch-Specific failure reason codes for Windows.

See the following table that shows the patch-specific failure reason codes for patch jobs in the Jobs Results tab.

Code

Status

Description

3

LanguageDownloadNotAvailable

This means patch is not available for the selected language.

4

FileDownloadFailed

This means the vendor patch file failed to download. As a result, installation will not happen.

5

UnspecifiedAgentError

This means an unspecified error occurred during the execution of the agent that caused patch deployment failure, e.g. out of memory.

7

FileValidationFailed

This means the vendor patch file is either not signed, or the file signature fails the validation requested by the content provider.

8

Cancelled

This means the patch installation was aborted on command.

9

InstallerFailed

This means the installer failed to deploy the patch.

10

DeployerProcessCrashed

This means the patch deployment engine (STDeploy.exe) crashed / terminated unexpectedly.

11

FileSignatureFailed

This means the vendor patch file failed the signature validation.

12

FileHashValidationFailed

This means the vendor patch file failed the hash validation.

13

PatchURLMissing

This means the vendor patch has no URL.

14

 

PatchInstallationSkipped

 

Patch installation is skipped due to the completion of the patching window.

15 Failed This means the patch installation job failed although the reboot was completed. See Details of Error Code 15

Details of Error Code 15

The special error code 15 occurs when the patch installation job fails, although the reboot was completed. The failure details describe the reason, in addition to the error code and error message from the event viewer logs for each event. Please note that these are the probable event viewer errors. 

The following table describes the details of the event.

Key Name Data Type Description
id Integer A unique identifier for the event entry in the list.
eventid Integer The event ID from Windows Event Viewer that represents a specific update event.
errorcode String The error code related to the update failure (e.g., "0x80073d02").
updatetitle String The name or identifier of the update that encountered the issue.
errormessage String  A detailed message describing the update failure, including the error code and update title.