Error -2147467259 when trying to update package manager on client

[StephenKM]

I am trying to update the package manager from 18.0.1 to 18.0.2 on a client machine using the SystemLink interface, but I get a Failed (-2147467259) result.  I haven't tried manually updating on the client directly yet as I want to understand the error first. Both the server and client are windows 7 64-bit. See more details below

ARGS:

[
   [
      {
         "__kwarg__": true,
         "pkgs": [
            {
               "ni-package-manager": "18.0.2.49152-0+f0"
            }
         ],
         "refresh": true
      }
   ],
   [],
   [
      {
         "__kwarg__": true,
         "attr": [
            "description",
            "displayname",
            "displayversion",
            "group",
            "packager",
            "priority",
            "url",
            "uservisible",
            "version"
         ]
      }
   ]
]

Detailed Results:

[
   "Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"C:\\Program Files\\National Instruments\\Shared\\salt\\bin\\lib\\site-packages\\salt\\minion.py\", line 1674, in _thread_multi_return
    ret['return'][ind] = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File \"C:\\ProgramData\\National Instruments\\salt\\var\\cache\\salt\\minion\\extmods\\modules\
ipkg.py\", line 491, in install
    info={'errors': errors, 'changes': ret}
salt.exceptions.CommandExecutionError: Problem encountered installing package(s). Additional info follows:

changes:
    ----------
errors:
    - Conflicting requests.
",
   false,
   null
]

[GreyGrey · Accepted solution]

Currently, SystemLink cannot have NI Package Manager upgrade itself via the Software tab on Managed systems. This is something that we hope to equip SystemLink with the ability to do soon.

[StephenKM]

Fair enough. But can we at least do a better job of explaining the error. Ideally you could disable this package update from showing up but a least give some meaningful text about the error.  That way I can stop bugging you guys on the forums every time I find another limitation of the current software.

[Jim_Kring]

This is a super important capability. Thanks for working on it.