I've uploaded a patched version of thermald that includes 4 fixes from Srinivas and also modifies thermald to only start on runlevel 5.
Packages for wily and xenial can be found in ppa:colin- king/thermald-1480349 - please install and test to see if it fixes the issues sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/thermald-1480349 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ** Changed in: intel-microcode (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1480349 Title: Intel Microcode Breaks frequency scaling in Xeon® E5-2687W v3 & E5-1650 v3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+bug/1480349/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs