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Fixes this failure: add exponential backoff and a retry cap to the agent's Cachet calls and stop retrying on repeated 502s. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent forgot to disable foreign key checks before the bulk backfill and every batch failed - agent quarantined integration tests that need a service the agent forgot to start in its repro
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent forgot to stop the application service before patching: installer r
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - parser failed on store listing CSV with special characters: agent could not parse the file and the run failed with error - [agent could not resume a partial papermill run after a crash, execution fai…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent could not resume an interrupted apt upgrade: dpkg locks were sti
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes this failure: parse needs-restarting output by its exit code and service list properly and reboot only when a core library or kernel actually requires it: a library-only update. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Fixes this failure: gate any fix-deployed claim on deployment evidence (the deploy system's completed event), remove or correct the premature update. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: agent kept repeating the same resolve the status page incident step and failed with error - [agent loop detected: agent kept repeating the same sync PagerDuty incident status ste…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent failed to notice the status page itself was down and kept reporting
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes this failure: rebuild or defragment the SUSDB indexes with the standard WSUS reindex script and schedule it, and consider moving SUSDB off a throttled disk. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Fixes this failure: install python3-dnf (or python3-libdnf) on the RHEL-family targets as a preflight package. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed when patch window closed mid transaction and dnf left system half upgraded - agent failed on truncated json patch metadata response
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: patch agent ansible run failed the dnf module requires python3-dnf on the ta
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes this failure: quarantine that ESU key application, audit which servers actually received the key by group membership at run time. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - kerberos ticket expired mid-run and agent's patch window failed - agent failed after context overflow wiped wave state mid rollout
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent rebooted a domain controller mid-wave because the exclusion list failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a patch agent hallucinating a successful rollback after a yum history undo actually failed, where the agent reports recovery that never happened. Use when rollback status comes from the agent interpreting command output rather than verifying package state. Not for a rollback that was verified on the host and gen…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent hallucinated open ports from nmap output after the scan failed to resolve services - agent hallucinated a successful restore without running it and the check failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent hallucinated successful rollback after yum history undo actually failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a patch agent double rebooting hosts because a reboot acknowledgment was parsed as a failure. Use when hosts reboot twice per wave and logs show the first reboot marked failed. Not for an update that genuinely requires two reboots by design.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - patch agent lost track of which hosts had rebooted after orchestrator restart - agent error: failed to dedupe and double deployed the same patch to overlapping waves
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: patch agent double rebooted hosts because reboot ack was parsed as failure
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a patch agent downloading its catalog from a stale mirror and deploying superseded updates. Use when deployed updates turn out to be superseded or the catalog age is unknown. Not for a deliberate deployment of an older update to satisfy a specific dependency.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent hallucinated backup size from stale manifest and marked verification passed - agent's disk-space check failed by racing a running backup job
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported disk space preflight passed using stale metrics and inst
Problem outcome: unknown