Adding my $0.02, whatever it is worth. I ran into this on a RamNode VPS. downgrading to 4.15.0-20-generic made it boot again. Attaching dmesg from that machine. $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x1 cpu MHz : 3400.022 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 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 ss syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon nopl cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm pti fsgsbase smep xsaveopt ibpb ibrs stibp bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 bogomips : 6800.04 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
** Attachment added: "dmesg output" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1779827/+attachment/5213740/+files/dmesg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779827 Title: failure to boot with linux-image-4.15.0-24-generic Status in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in The Bionic Beaver: Confirmed Status in linux source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: This was the last OK then my 18.04 hangs after an update this morning. 07:00 AM CEST Last Ok in boot was Started gnome display manager. dispatcher service ...... tem changes.pp link was shut down Tried install lightdm from command line and the response was lastest already installed. Probably it is what is coming after the lastest OK which is to be the error. And here I have lots of guesses...... Any Ideas ? I need to do some work and I may not be waiting long. Search and browsed and now close to give up. Yeah it is a Lenovo. Guys: turn of auto update it is a machine killer. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1779827/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
