I have some decent familiarity with Pending Restart, but in this case I would like to simply ignore it as long as the installation completed successfully.
In this case, I am using the Chrome Fixlet on Windows which has a “action may require restart” at the bottom of the ActionScript. I have a task that force closes Chrome at the top of my baseline and the Chrome update completes 100% successfully. However, since the server has a Pending Restart flag, my action is also showing “Pending Restart”.
In this sort of a scenario, I do not want to reboot the server, I am only concerned about fixing the Chrome version which does not require a reboot. Is there a way to have the action status reflect a more accurate of “Fixed” or “Complete” and basically ignore the Pending Restart check?
I know I could copy the Chrome fixlet and change the change that actionsript line, but not looking to do that every time this type of scenario would come up.
The best course of action is to edit the fixlet and remove the line; if you’d rather not do that, you can try a workaround that involves removing the pending restart status from the registry. However, doing so will clear the restart for Chrome as well as for deployments that come after it or before it.
It is recommended to keep an eye on which of these reg keys is incremented when you run a chrom update and it sets pending restart. Once that reg item is completed, consider deleting it.
