If You Have Windows Bootup Issues After Installing SVS Agent
After we deployed the SVS Agent to all of our computers, there were a handful of computers that got stuck in a reboot loop. Ouch! We knew the issue started after the SVS Agent was installed, so we wanted to uninstall it. However, we could only get into Windows Safe Mode and were unable to uninstall from there.
After doing some digging, I found that there can be issues with the SVS filter driver during startup if it conflicts with another application (like certain versions of Symantec AntiVirus) or if it is a Windows 2000 computer that already has software that load filter drivers during bootup.
I ran across an Altiris Knowledgebase article 43245 that referenced the path to the SVS filter driver in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FSLX\ImagePath
The ImagePath is usually set to:
\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\fslx.sys
(C:\WINDOWS for XP or C:\WINNT for Windows 2000)
My idea to recover these computers from the reboot cycle was to change the ImagePath in the registry in Safe Mode to something that isn't the correct path to fslx.sys. It worked! This allowed us to get back into Windows normally and work on troubleshooting the bootup conflict caused by the SVS Agent.
Rebooting computers after SVS install
We noticed some computers that are also rebooting in a loop after SVS install. This behaviour was caused because SVS placed the driver not only in c:\windows\system32\drivers, but also in c:\windows\system32.
Try it yourselve.
Place fslx.sys in c:\windows\system32, and you will notice that the machine wil loop again.
Regards
Erik
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Regards
Erik
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So you're saying that if
So you're saying that if fslx.sys is only in system32 it won't have reboot issues? I wasn't clear from your post.
-Geo
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Just rename fslx.sys...
Our standard approach for getting a machine back up when SVS is causing a boot problem (of whatever nature) is to rename fslx.sys (in [WINDIR]\System32\drivers). Easier, quicker, and you're less likely to make a mistake.
Scott Jones
Technical Product Manager
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization
Scott what have you found
Scott what have you found as the causes for reboot conflicts and how were you able to remedy the conflict?
-Geo
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Cisco Security Agent Caused The Issue For Us
I had a laptop that was in a reboot loop after the SVS agent install.
After logging into the machine and deleting all the references to Altiris so that CSA would trust the Altiris installation it resolved out issue.
If You Have Windows Bootup Issues After Installing SVS Agent
We have had the SVS client on all machines for some time. Our systems did not start this(BSOD Loop) until our Symantec Endpoint updated itself the night of the August 11th. We have Symantec working on this. Two ways we used to stop this: 1. Uninstall SVS in safe-mode. 2. Stop/Disable the Symantec Endpoint service in safe-mode. Will update here when i hear from symantec.
Seth, and other experencing
Seth, and other experencing this problem, please see this post about how to work around the problem.
The actual solution is to upgrade SVS (it's only real old versions of SVS having this problem) but you might need to follow these steps to get out of the BSOD loop.
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I'm not sure that the
I'm not sure that the latest SVS version is the fix, because we are running SVS 2.1.2095 and still see a conflict with Symantec AntiVirus 10.1.5.
-Geo
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Did you re-boot? Also we'll
Did you re-boot?
Also we'll have a KB article up with more info, we're seeing sketchy results from the program ignore list but so far no issues with any version of SVS after 2.1.2032
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We also had this problem.
We also had this problem. Booting into safe mode and renaming the file fixed the BSOD issue. We then installed the latest version 2.1.2088. The version we had issues with was 2.0.1403.
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