Windows Media Center Daily Update Error

Hi to all.

I seem to be having an update problem with Windows Media Center. When I checked the Event Viewer, the last successful update was at 9/3/2011.

Here's the event log for 9/3/2011:

15:28:52 - Testing internet connection.
15:29:06 - Connection established.
15:29:14 - Retrieving Directory.
15:29:15 - Processing Directory.
15:29:16 - Processing of Directory is complete.
15:29:16 - The ClientUpdate package download has been disabled until Media Center is used again.
15:29:16 - The NetTV package is not available.
15:29:16 - The MCESpotlight package is already up to date.
15:29:16 - The SportsSchedule package is not available.
15:29:16 - The SportsV2 package is not available.
15:29:16 - The MCEClientMaintenance package is already up to date. 15:29:16 - Testing internet connection.
15:29:16 - Connection established.
15:29:17 - Retrieving MCEClientUX.
15:29:17 - Processing of MCEClientUX is complete.
15:29:17 - The MCEClientUX package is already up to date.
15:29:18 - Retrieving Broadband.
15:29:19 - Processing Broadband.
15:29:19 - Retrieving Broadband.enc. 15:29:22 - Extracting null-gb_null_29_BBPkg.mxf.
15:29:22 - Processing null-gb_null_29_BBPkg.mxf.
15:29:23 - Processing of Broadband is complete.
15:29:30 - Update successful.
15:29:30 - Next update at 10/03/2011 10:19:15.

Todays one, however, ended up with 'Errors during last update. Will retry at 14/3/2011 17:25:14.'

Today's log (13/3/11) was:

16:32:31 - The Directory package is already up to date.
16:32:31 - The ClientUpdate package is already up to date.
16:32:31 - The NetTV package is not available.
16:32:31 - The MCESpotlight package is already up to date.
16:32:31 - The SportsSchedule package is not available.
16:32:31 - The SportsV2 package is not available.
16:32:31 - The Broadband package is already up to date.
16:32:31 - Testing internet connection.
16:32:34 - Connection established.
16:32:38 - Retrieving MCEClientUX.
16:32:38 - Processing MCEClientUX.
16:32:39 - Retrieving dSM-2.cab.
16:32:43 - Extracting StartResources.dll.
16:32:43 - Retrieving Logos-2.cab.
16:32:47 - Extracting LogoUK.png.
16:32:47 - Extracting SkyLogo.png.
16:32:47 - Retrieving SMTiles-2.cab.
16:32:51 - Extracting StartMenuMovies_SKY.png.
16:32:51 - Extracting StartMenuTV_SKY.png.
16:32:51 - Extracting StartMenu_ITV_Search.png.
16:32:51 - Extracting StartMenu_MSN_UK.png.
16:32:51 - Retrieving UpdateableMarkup-7.cab.
16:33:00 - Errors during the last update.
16:33:00 - Will retry at 14/03/2011 17:25:14.

I think it may be me restoring the system using system restore (but it failed anyway because of having a virus scan running in the background ) or having a slow internet connection but I don't know for sure. Im also currently running a full computer virus scan and I have 'Oracle VMVirtualBox' which installed its own Ethernet Driver and its now added 'Unidentified Network No network access' to the network icon.

If anyone has any solutions available then that would be great.

Thank you very much.


Matt

 

Can I kindly ask the administrator of this site to remove the whole thread if there are no replies after midnight.

Thank you

 

I'm seeing the same behavior. I didn't even know Media Center had it's own updates.

 

Well i'm glad that I ain't the only one getting the error.

Also, heres the latest log:


16:27:08 - Testing internet connection.
16:27:11 - Connection established.
16:27:12 - Retrieving Directory.
16:27:13 - Processing Directory.
16:27:13 - Processing of Directory is complete.
16:27:13 - The NetTV package is not available.
16:27:13 - The SportsSchedule package is not available.
16:27:13 - The SportsV2 package is not available.
16:27:13 - Testing internet connection.
16:27:14 - Connection established.
16:27:14 - Retrieving ClientUpdate.
16:27:15 - Processing of ClientUpdate is complete.
16:27:15 - The ClientUpdate package is already up to date.
16:27:15 - Retrieving MCESpotlight.
16:27:16 - Processing of MCESpotlight is complete.
16:27:16 - The MCESpotlight package is already up to date.
16:27:16 - Retrieving MCEClientUX.
16:27:17 - Processing MCEClientUX.
16:27:17 - Retrieving dSM.cab.
16:27:21 - Extracting StartResources.dll.
16:27:21 - Retrieving Logos.cab.
16:27:25 - Extracting LogoUK.png.
16:27:25 - Extracting SkyLogo.png.
16:27:26 - Retrieving SMTiles.cab.
16:27:40 - Extracting StartMenuMovies_SKY.png.
16:27:40 - Extracting StartMenuTV_SKY.png.
16:27:40 - Extracting StartMenu_ITV_Search.png.
16:27:40 - Extracting StartMenu_MSN_UK.png.
16:27:41 - Retrieving UpdateableMarkup-7.cab.
16:27:49 - Retrieving Broadband.
16:27:49 - Processing of Broadband is complete.
16:27:49 - The Broadband package is already up to date.
16:27:52 - Errors during the last update.
16:27:52 - Will retry at 15/03/2011 02:56:25.



Could it be the lines that I highlighted in bold that are the errors? Because sometimes the errors could actually just be unavailable data. So instead of Media Center saying that its update(s) had errors, It could just say 'Successful with [NUMBER] unneeded items. Next update at ??/??/?? ??:??:??'

Also, I have Piriform's CCleaner set to clean upmy computer on startup so could it be that if its cleaning at start up, it could be deleting items from the update before they get onto my computer? I don't know if it is because if I remember correctly, it worked perfectly fine before with CCleaner running at startup.

 

FINALLY fixed it!

All I had to do was reset my internet connection from my main hub and '£££kerching!£££', it finally works.

So if 'LordRasta' or anoyne else is getting errors during media center's update, just reset your main hub (e.g. BT HomeHub) and the errors are solved. The reset button is usually located on the side of the main hub for your internet connection.

I suspect that the update errors are due t either the internet connection becoming stressed out or becoming interrupted.

Hope this helps other people!

Matt

 

These are the actual lines that are causing the problem. Since broadband connections can sometimes become 'stale' or 'interrupted', it can affect some updates of certain updates and websites as these kind of things now need fast, persistent and reliable internet for updates to work without ANY errors.


Again, hope this helps everyone that's getting these Media Center Update errors as well.


Matt