701436 - If maintenance service fails to apply an update X times, never use it again for updates

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

If the maintenance service fails to apply an update X times, then don't use the maintenance service for future updates.

I envision that upon firefox.exe reading a status of pending-no-service it would increment the value at that time.
If the value reaches some number X, then it would never use the service again even if the checkbox to use the service is on.

Open questions:
- Should we only increment the count in a subset of the failure conditions?
  - If so which failure conditions?
- How can this pref be reset via an update if we ever want to do that in a future update.

Current failure conditions:
- Service crashes and update file is pending-no-service before service launch even started
- Some kind of error reading the work item which results in it not being processed
- updater.exe crashes or has some kind of error and returns something other than 0
- Certificate check fails on updater.exe

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

This is implemented in the incremental patch currently in Bug 481815.  It'll be in the end included inside bug 481815.