Server 2019 Won't patch and DISM fails

[Sheridan]

I've got a couple of 2019 servers that fail to install the Jan updates (error 0x800F0984) and this seems to point to component corruption - however running sfc and dism both fail to repair the system (dism also shows Error: 0x800f0954 DISM failed. No operation was performed) so no updates can be installed anymore

 

Is there a way around this or am I looking at a new server, as I don't think there's a way to repair the server once its in this state?

[Oaktech]

I've got a couple of 2019 servers that fail to install the Jan updates (error 0x800F0984) and this seems to point to component corruption - however running sfc and dism both fail to repair the system (dism also shows Error: 0x800f0954 DISM failed. No operation was performed) so no updates can be installed anymore

 

Is there a way around this or am I looking at a new server, as I don't think there's a way to repair the server once its in this state?

 

I've had several laptops error with this. One of them was corrected by checking for updates from microsoft and installing an update that wasn't on our WSUS, but the rest have required a rebuild.

[ITGURU]

I've always found 2019 to be more reliable installing updates than 2016, however they have pulled the Jan updates due to all the issues!

[Koldov]

Have they released a new set of updates that don't have Hyper-V, DC reboot or ReFS issues?

[mrstrong]

Not sure if this will help you but had a issue where dism couldn't repair as said "The source files could not be downloaded"

 

In the end managed to fix by pointing at original install wim:

 

DISM /get-wiminfo /wimfile:C:\install.wim

 

to get index then:

 

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:WIM:c:\install.wim:1 /LimitAccess