http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqljourney/archive/2012/03/28/sql-2005-patch-on-cluster-might-fail-with-no-passive-nodes-were-successfully-patched.aspxThis is one of those &ldquo;rare&rdquo; setup issues you might run into, on a &ldquo;Bad luck&rdquo; day. The patch fails, and in the summary.txt, you see this at the bottom:- Summary No passive nodes were successfully patched Exit Code Returned: 11009en-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqljourney/archive/2012/03/28/sql-2005-patch-on-cluster-might-fail-with-no-passive-nodes-were-successfully-patched.aspx#10370493Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:29:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10370493HarshDeep_Singh<p>Thanks much Gareth. Happy to know it helped...!!! </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10370493" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqljourney/archive/2012/03/28/sql-2005-patch-on-cluster-might-fail-with-no-passive-nodes-were-successfully-patched.aspx#10370465Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:39:11 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10370465Gareth<p>Thanks for this post. It lead me to a solution for a similar problem.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10370465" width="1" height="1">