{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joefitzgerald/packer-windows/issues/159","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joefitzgerald/packer-windows/issues/159/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joefitzgerald/packer-windows/issues/159/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joefitzgerald/packer-windows/issues/159/events","html_url":"https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows/issues/159","id":97284603,"number":159,"title":"2008R2 Windows Updates hangs","user":{"login":"markhuber","id":565388,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/565388?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber","html_url":"https://github.com/markhuber","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/markhuber/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-07-26T04:24:09Z","updated_at":"2016-02-02T01:01:41Z","closed_at":"2016-02-02T01:01:41Z","body":"I've spent the better part of the day trying to troubleshoot this one to no avail. \r\n\r\nFrom a clean clone, enabling gui, and building the windows_2008_r2.json when the answer file reaches win-updates.ps1 , it gets stuck at the first call to $script:UpdateSearcher.Search . \r\n\r\nIn addition if you skip that and attempt to use the GUI to run windows updates, it will install the latest windows update agent, but then get stuck on Checking for Updates.\r\n\r\nCan anyone else confirm this issue? I believe this is a Windows Update bug, but I've tried every hack and slash trick to repair it on google to no avail."}}