The advice, which is specifically for virtual machines using Azure, shows that sometimes the solution to a catastrophic failure is turn it off and on again. And again.
ArsTechnica has a bit more detail. I’ll quote the important bit below.
… try to reboot affected machines over and over, which gives affected machines multiple chances to try to grab CrowdStrike’s non-broken update before the bad driver can cause the BSOD.
ArsTechnica has a bit more detail. I’ll quote the important bit below.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/
This seems like an interesting application of a “race condition”. They are hoping that the update outraces the program starting up enough to crash…