If the ShortDatePattern is yy.M.d (as can happen for US locale) we may not always reformat the date for schtasks.exe correctly. For explanation and testing see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895323#c46 (- #c50) Thanks: Xiaodai Wang for testing and bug fix suggestions Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895323 --- convert/convert_windows.ml | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/convert/convert_windows.ml b/convert/convert_windows.ml index 31e16723ba..913eb0f4f1 100644 --- a/convert/convert_windows.ml +++ b/convert/convert_windows.ml @@ -400,12 +400,15 @@ popd and configure_qemu_ga files = List.iter ( fun msi_path -> - (* Windows is a trashfire. https://stackoverflow.com/a/18730884 *) + (* Windows is a trashfire. + * https://stackoverflow.com/a/18730884 + * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895323 + *) let fb_script = sprintf "\ echo Removing any previously scheduled qemu-ga installation schtasks.exe /Delete /TN Firstboot-qemu-ga /F echo Scheduling delayed installation of qemu-ga from %s -powershell.exe -command \"$d = (get-date).AddSeconds(120); $FormatHack = ($([System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo]::CurrentInfo.ShortDatePattern) -replace 'M+/', 'MM/') -replace 'd+/', 'dd/'; schtasks.exe /Create /SC ONCE /ST $d.ToString('HH:mm') /SD $d.ToString($FormatHack) /RU SYSTEM /TN Firstboot-qemu-ga /TR \\\"C:\\%s /forcerestart /qn /l+*vx C:\\%s.log\\\"\" +powershell.exe -command \"$d = (get-date).AddSeconds(120); $FormatHack = ($([System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo]::CurrentInfo.ShortDatePattern) -replace 'y+', 'yyyy') -replace 'M+', 'MM') -replace 'd+', 'dd'; schtasks.exe /Create /SC ONCE /ST $d.ToString('HH:mm') /SD $d.ToString($FormatHack) /RU SYSTEM /TN Firstboot-qemu-ga /TR \\\"C:\\%s /forcerestart /qn /l+*vx C:\\%s.log\\\"\" " msi_path msi_path msi_path in Firstboot.add_firstboot_script g inspect.i_root