Chocolatey-Agent keeping a handle on the root named pipe.

[lukegriffith]

What You Are Seeing?

Chocolaty background agent interfering with other applications using WCF pipes, by having a handle on the root named pipe. net.pipe://+/

This is causing issues with a ReSharper Product that also uses WCF pipes.

What is Expected?

both to work in peace and harmony.

How Did You Get This To Happen? (Steps to Reproduce)

[11:37:45][+0] C:\Windows
 ? handle.exe net.pipe

Handle v3.46
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chocolatey-agent.exe pid: 3252   type: Section        468: \BaseNamedObjects\net.pipe:EbmV0LnBpcGU6Ly8rLw==
[11:37:51][+1] C:\Windows
 ? [System.Text.Encoding]::utf8.GetString([convert]::FromBase64String("bmVOLnBpcGU6Ly8rLw=="))
neN.pipe://+/
[11:37:56][+0] C:\Windows

# Please excuse the poor decoding, i only had Powershell

Output Log

[ferventcoder]

This looks to be of particular high priority, so we'll likely issue a fix in quick succession once we get to the bottom of the issue. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[ferventcoder]

• https://bitbucket.org/chocolatey/chocolicensed/issues/141/ for licensed extension issue
• https://bitbucket.org/chocolatey/choco-licensed-services/issues/7/ for chocolatey-agent

[ferventcoder]

We've released new versions of the agent and the licensed extension:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chocolatey-announce/sU0C5taa1h0
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chocolatey-announce/l4EAIwyB4hc