[CentOS] Updating microcode_ctl froze Centos7

Fri Jun 12 08:24:13 UTC 2020
Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:20:34AM +0200, Robin Lee wrote:
> Today when I ran yum update two packages came up microcode_ctl
> and unbound-libs. The updating process went fine until it outputted 
> 
> Running transaction
>   Updating   : 2:microcode_ctl-2.1-61.6.el7_8.x86_64
> 
> then it just froze. I could no longer ssh to the machine and the
> console was just blank. I had to shut down it hard.

Maybe related to https://www.hivelocity.net/blog/centos-update-advisory/
(discarding the blame game) it might be a bad combination of
kernel/microcode/bios...

my 2 cents,

Tru
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