[CentOS] Updating microcode_ctl froze Centos7

Robin Lee

robinlee at mailbox.org
Sun Jun 14 16:09:35 UTC 2020


On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 09:20 +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. It came back up
> seemingly fine. But yum update doesn't work anymore. It says "Error
> importing repomd.xml from base/7/x86_64: Damaged repomd.xml file"
> I looked at the logs, but journalctl only shows the latest boot on
> this
> machine. 
> 
> So I guess I have three questions
> - Any idea what happened with the update process?
> - How can I repair repomd.xml?


No suggestions about the best way to restore repomd.xml?

/Robin



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