Patch Bundles failing on Install

Looking at Patch Bundle status: Bundles-->ZPM-->2015 January Critical - CCC-->Bundle Status-->(Device assignments-Devices Succeeded). Most workstations show Partial Complete. When looking at the details of the deployment under install, this is the error I am receiving: There is no user session available or user session cannot be determined. I am running 11.3.2 on the server side, but the workstations are at 11.3.0 currently.

Originally Posted by lressel
Looking at Patch Bundle status: Bundles-->ZPM-->2015 January Critical - CCC-->Bundle Status-->(Device assignments-Devices Succeeded). Most workstations show Partial Complete. When looking at the details of the deployment under install, this is the error I am receiving: There is no user session available or user session cannot be determined. I am running 11.3.2 on the server side, but the workstations are at 11.3.0 currently.
This was a known issue on 11.3.0.......
Patch Bundles would not install properly if a user was not logged onto the device.
If you upgrade the devices to 11.3.2, the issue should go away.

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    113886-38 are not installed on this system.
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