It’s not just Windows – Linux Ubuntu systems being bricked by Meltdown/Spectre patches, too

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Published onJanuary 10, 2018

published onJanuary 10, 2018

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As you likely know by now, some users with AMD Windows PCs werereporting boot up issuesafter installing Microsoft’sMeltdown security patch. This caused the company toeventually pausethe update for AMD based PCs. Well, it looks as though Windows is not the only operating system impacted, as the Meltdown patch is also bricking some Linux Ubuntu systems.

Linux and Ubuntu users have apparently been venting about the “bricking” issue on theUbuntu forums, and also contributing technical info about it on theUbuntu Launchpad bug tracker. Supposedly only Ubuntu users running the Xenial 16.04 release are experiencing bricked systems after updating to kernel image 4.4.0-108.

Canonical originally released Kernel image 4.4.0.108 on January 9, and asecurity bulletinnotes that this was to correct Meltdown. There have been subsequent Linux Kernel updates, including4.4.109, and4.4.0.109.114which attempt to alleviate the bricking issue, though it has not worked for everyone. Others have also said that rolling back to the previous kernel image also resolves all problems, except for being protected from Meltdown and Spectre, of course.

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