Additional info in hopes it proves useful. On the hung boots, there is no recorded output to disk unfortunately.
This is what's installed on the machine running 108 nopti: jstanford@www:~$ dpkg -l linux* |grep ii ii linux-base 4.0ubuntu1 all Linux image base package ii linux-firmware 1.157.14 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers ii linux-generic 4.4.0.109.114 amd64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers ii linux-headers-4.4.0-104 4.4.0-104.127 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.4.0 ii linux-headers-4.4.0-104-generic 4.4.0-104.127 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-4.4.0-108 4.4.0-108.131 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.4.0 ii linux-headers-4.4.0-108-generic 4.4.0-108.131 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-4.4.0-109 4.4.0-109.132 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.4.0 ii linux-headers-4.4.0-109-generic 4.4.0-109.132 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-headers-generic 4.4.0.109.114 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers ii linux-image-4.4.0-104-generic 4.4.0-104.127 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-4.4.0-108-generic 4.4.0-108.131 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-4.4.0-109-generic 4.4.0-109.132 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-extra-4.4.0-104-generic 4.4.0-104.127 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-extra-4.4.0-108-generic 4.4.0-108.131 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-extra-4.4.0-109-generic 4.4.0-109.132 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-generic 4.4.0.109.114 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image ** Attachment added: "VMware Version info" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1742502/+attachment/5034621/+files/vmwareversion.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1742502 Title: 108 and 109 kernel hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1742502/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs