Distribution manager failed to process package - the source directory does not exist

Question

Hi,
I have the following behaviour:
A Software Update Deployment Package is not distributing because of the following error:
I have found the following query (http://blogs.technet.com/b/ken_brumfield/archive/2013/01/10/troubleshooting-sccm-software-update-deployment-package-distribution-due-to-missing-directories.aspx) to
determine which update is missing.
It is about update KB978601. If we search this update in the console, we see this:
The update is not required, not downloaded, not deployed and superseeded.
If we look into the members of the Update deployment package, we can't find this update.
When I was digging into the database, I found this:
SELECT
distinct cp.Content_ID,
cp.ContentSubFolder,cp.PkgID,
con.ContentProvisioned
FROM
[dbo].[vCI_ContentPackages] cp
INNER
JOIN [dbo].[CI_ConfigurationItemContents]cic
ON cp.Content_ID
= cic.Content_ID
inner
join dbo.v_CIContents_All
con on con.Content_ID
= cp.Content_ID
where cp.PkgID
=
'XXX002BA'
and cp.ContentSubFolder
=
'39b46f0a-7244-48a6-b795-119ac74009f9'
which resulted in:
Content_ID ContentSubFolder PkgID ContentProvisioned
16828355 39b46f0a-7244-48a6-b795-119ac74009f9 BP1002BA 1
I found the "ContentProvisioned = 1 " a little bit strange.
So, my question is:
Why SCCM is thinking of distributing the content although it is not downloaded or deployed and how can we fix this?
Has it something todo with the "ContentProvisioned" or is it something else?
Thanks,
Sem

Answer 1

I can tell you why CM wants to distribute it, but the easiest way would be downloading that patch thus adding it to the package (so that it can be distributed) and remove it afterwards.
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de