Bug 18037

Summary:	microcode_ctl seems to be useless.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	microcode_ctl-2.1-4.mga5	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2016-03-19 09:39:55 CET

Description of problem:
This package seems to be designed to download and prepare the intel and amd microcode. However, the key file, /etc/rc.d/init.d/microcode-ctl which is called by the /usr/sbin/update-intel-microcode does not exist anymore. The monthy cron job thus fails, as does the applet that seems to run every time kde is started. 
This package either needs to be removed, or /etc/init.d/microcode-ctl needs to be reinstated. (Is there a systemd equivalent?)

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2016-03-19 13:04:28 CET

*** Bug 18038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Manuel Hiebel 2016-03-19 13:05:10 CET

Summary: This whole package seems to be useless. => microcode_ctl seems to be useless.

Comment 2 w unruh 2016-03-19 18:23:37 CET

I do apologize for giving you more work. Something seemed to have gone wrong in the bug reporting, and I thought my first attempt had failed (that was what I thought the error message said).

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-03-25 08:53:35 CET

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no maintainer for this package.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2018-04-19 16:51:35 CEST

Hi w unruh,

Thank you for having taken the needed time to report this issue!

Did this bug get fixed? If so, please change its status to RESOLVED - FIXED

If it didn't, then we regret that we weren't able to fix it in Mageia 5. Mageia 5 has officially reached its End of Life on December 31st, 2017 https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed/
It only continued to get important security updates since then, because we are waiting for a big Plasma5 update in Mageia 6, that'll fix many of the Mageia 5 => 6 upgrade issues.

If you haven't seen that this bug got fixed, then please check whether this bug still exists in Mageia 6. If it does, then please change the Version (near the top, at the left) to "6". If you know it exists in Cauldron, then change Version to Cauldron. If you see it in both Cauldron and Mageia 6, then please set Version to Cauldron and add MGA6TOO on the Whiteboard.

Thanks,
Marja

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2018-10-07 15:44:04 CEST

No reply, so closing as OLD since Mageia 5 is no longer maintained.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD