One explanation and solution for when applying CF updates uninstalls new packages unexpectedly
We only experienced it with CF2023, but others have reported the problem in the past, with various CF updates to any CF version. As I'll explain it seems to be a caching problem relative to Adobe's servers (so some people may experience it, but not others):
- First, you may find that after applying the update all the of the packages that were to be updated by the release will instead be UNINSTALLED unexpectedly/
- Even worse, that could mean that the administrator package is uninstalled, such that you can't get to the CF Admin after the update...which will also mean you can't use the admin to try to "uninstall the update" (if you wanted to).
Of course, you could go the command line route, as you would be told to consider doing if the Administrator package was uninstalled, using CF's cfpm tool to either install the admin package or even perhaps try to uninstall the update entirely.
But I have what seems to be a better solution. It's quite simple, but bear with me while I explain it...both to help you (and Adobe) better understand what seems amiss, and in case more info may come out soon from them or other folks.
Beware also that if you may have "solved the problem" yourself, consider what I have to say below--you should confirm that you DO in fact have the correctly UPDATED packages, which you may have installed using that cfpm tool.




