KB5050021Broken

Black screen after install, OpenSSH broken, Bluetooth broken

DisplayBootOpenSSHBluetooth

What broke

January’s Patch Tuesday greeted Windows 11 22H2/23H2 users with black screens after installation — just a cursor on a void where your desktop used to be. OpenSSH continued its unbroken streak of being broken since October, now entering its fourth month of the sshd service silently refusing to start. Bluetooth file transfers broke, requiring a full uninstall-and-reinstall dance via DISM cleanup to restore functionality. A fitting start to the new year.

Incident details

Update
KB5050021
Incident date
· Browse that year
Status
Fixed
Fix date
Page last updated
Severity
Broken
Affected
Display, Boot, OpenSSH, Bluetooth

Sources

  1. Microsoft Learn: KB5050021
  2. Windows Forum: KB5050021 incident report

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