I'm confirming this, and marking marking it as medium. It is fairly common practice to boot kvm or qemu with something like: kvm -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r)
There are easy workarounds (downloading the kernel and extracting and using it), but they're less than idea. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/759725 Title: The kernel is no longer readable by non-root users -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs