Meltdown & Spectre Patches Causing Boot Issues for Ubuntu 16.04 Computers

  • 10 January 2018
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January 10th, 2018  By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 users who updated to receive the Meltdown and Spectre patches are reporting they are unable to boot their systems and have been forced to roll back to an earlier Linux kernel image.
 
The issues were reported by a large number of users on the Ubuntu forums, Ubuntu's Launchpad bug tracker, and Reddit thread. Only Ubuntu users running the Xenial 16.04 series appear to be affected.
 
All users who reported issues said they were unable to boot after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel image 4.4.0-108.
 
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Find the bugs now and correct before this issue gets to big.
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