Editing Openai/69420ff4-d7c4-8000-a448-17006bf16a9e (section)

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All of this is normal and healthy:
* DISM initializes properly
* CBS (Component-Based Servicing) loads correctly
* Servicing Stack loads (wcp.dll succeeds)
* Command is parsed and routed correctly

So:

: 

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<syntaxhighlight>Processing the top level command token(add-capability)
...
CBS HRESULT=0x8000ffff
Failed to install capability.

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CBS (the Windows component installer) is saying:

: 

That’s why the error message itself is (null) — there is no package metadata to report, because the package has been removed.

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<syntaxhighlight>20:33:29 → command routed
20:37:31 → failure

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That delay is CBS:
* Searching the component store
* Querying Windows Update
* Checking if the capability can be staged

When nothing is found, it finally aborts with:

<syntaxhighlight>HRESULT=0x8000ffff

</syntaxhighlight>

This is expected behavior when a capability is hard-removed, not just disabled.