Public bug reported: After upgrade to 4.4.0-109, the system won't boot any more.
At the first boot tentative, the following message is shown and the system freezes: "Failure reading sector 0xbbcfd0 from hd0" Upon retry, a kernel panic is shown (see attached screen hard copy) Going back to 4.4.0-104.127-generic solved the problem. I've been able to reproduce this bug in a consistent way: I tried several times to go boot into 4.0.0-109 and the system froze with the described behaviour, but booting into 4.0.0-104 always worked. I have checked the bug reports concerning kernel panic after upgrade to 4.4.0-108, but this problem seems to be different: I experience this problem after upgrading to 4.4.0-109, which presumably fixed the problem reported the other bug reports (I don't know if my configuration would've worked with 108, because I have not updated during a week) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 5 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 455 Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x10000c8 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 3 core id : 0 cpu cores : 3 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr hw_pstate vmmcall npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save bugs : tlb_mmatch fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs bogomips : 6629.24 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [... and two more identical cpus] ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: 4.0.0-109 kernel-panic meltdown ** Attachment added: "Kernel panic message" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744580/+attachment/5040629/+files/P1210145.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744580 Title: 4.4.0-109 kernel panic upon boot with AMD Athlon II X3 455 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1744580/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs