Hi all,
You may get this incident of having status message viewer rendering messages with blank description or names of components or packages or distriubtion points.
It looks like this:
"Pull Distribution Point "" is currently downloading package "". percent download has completed."
"
Distribution Manager failed to process package "" (package ID = ).
Possible cause: Distribution Manager does not have access to either the package source directory or the distribution point.
Solution: Verify that distribution manager can access the package source directory/distribution point.
Possible cause: The package source directory contains files with long file names and the total length of the path exceeds the maximum length supported by the operating system.
Solution: Reduce the number of folders defined for the package, shorten the filename, or consider bundling the files using a compression utility.
Possible cause: There is not enough disk space available on the site server computer or the distribution point.
Solution: Verify that there is enough free disk space available on the site server computer and on the distribution point.
Possible cause: The package source directory contains files that might be in use by an active process.
Solution: Close any processes that maybe using files in the source directory. If this failure persists, create an alternate copy of the source directory and update the package source to point to it."
and if you select one message and right click and choose detail you'll have the following important remark to get rid of this behaviour:
"No strings are displayed when the "Resolve Property Strings" option is turned off. To turn it back on, choose "Options..." from the "View" menu and select the "General" tab."
Then, got o "View" menu, "Options", then check those two boxes:
"Resolve description strings" and "Resolve property strings"
Good luck.