Re: Meltdown – Spectre - Was: kernel 4.4.0-108 / 16.04 LTS does not boot anymore

[NoOp]

On 01/12/2018 03:56 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:43:42 -0800
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/12/2018 08:04 AM, robert rottermann wrote:
>> > On 12.01.2018 13:53, Gilles Gravier wrote:  
>> >> A quick question to the OP... Is the machine an AMD machine (not
>> >> AMD64, I mean AMD processor versus Intel)?  
>> > 
>> > it is a: Intel® Core™ i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz × 4
>> > 
>> > 
>> >   
>> 
>> You also update your Intel microcode per:
>> https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3531-1/
>> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-5715.html
>> 
>> 
> 
> Which seems to have introduced a regression on some hardware:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1742933
> 


Ah... thanks for that - good to know.
The Intel article referenced in the bug report:
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues/
states:
"We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots
after applying firmware updates. Specifically, these systems are running
Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for both client and data center."

I updated 2 Intel machines: 1 running Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300  @
2.10GHz and another running an Intel i5-2450M CPU @ 2.5GHZ w/o issues.