Can someone direct me to a list of exit codes? Im tracking down exit codes 14098 , -214676496 and -2146885628.
Sorry if this has been asked before.
Can you provide more info?
Exit codes for what?
Exit codes don’t actually come from BigFix itself, instead BigFix passes up the exit codes provided by whatever you run (or attempt to run) with BigFix.
Sometimes it can be unclear where the exit codes are coming from, especially if there is an error with the way the thing is being called.
Can you provide fixlet/task details? or some actionscript?
From the results of a failed patch to a user machine. I guess they would be windows exit codes then.
Here is a handy Windows tip. To view the description of an error number, in a command window type:
NET HELPMSG message#
Example:
net helpmsg 14098
The component store has been corrupted.
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Thanks, that works on the simple ones. How do you convert exit codes like -2146498497 ?
To make sense of the others, you need to know that Bigfix isn’t interpreting the return codes as they’re intended, and a little bit about how negative numbers are represented in binary code.
Negative numbers in binary are stored in a format known as “two’s complement”. Without getting into the math involved, let’s just say any binary value where the most significant bit is a “1” is interpreted to be a negative decimal number and leave it at that. We can plug it into a two’s complement calculator to get the binary representation.
Take the last number from your first post, “-2146885628”. Navigate to https://www.exploringbinary.com/twos-complement-converter/ , paste in that negative number, and set the size to “32 bits”, and you’ll get the binary value “10000000000010010010000000000100”.
Knowing that a lot of Microsoft error codes are shown in hexadecimal (0xSomething), take the binary value and convert it to hex at https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-to-hex.html , and you’ll get the hexadecimal value 80092004.
So Google for 0x80092004 and you see it’s a valid windows installer error code. The first result at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4345232/0x80092004-error-and-updates-kb4340557-and-kb4340558-don-t-install-aft points toward a problem with a July 2018 .NET Rollup Package. I hope you’re not still deploying something that old, but in any case that’s how to interpret the return code and hopefully Google can help further.
After I started writing I found a shortcut on that second link, at https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/decimal-to-hex.html - you can enter the negative decimal number directly, and the “hex signed two’s complement” result gets you directly to 80092004.
Edit: when I was first writing this I was manually converting and did your last number incorrectly… -2146498497 = 0x800F083F which is also a windows installer error code worth googling.
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Oh man thank you very much. This all started to make sense now 
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You don’t need all those external sites
Relevance to the rescue:
q: (-2146498497 as integer) as hexadecimal
A: ffffffff800f083f
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That’s great!
If, ya know, you want to do it the easy way
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the number of times you have answered my questions is astounding. you are a pillar of the community!
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