I encountered this issue on a Hetzner VPS. It is a KVM based virtual server, not VMware. After rebooting I was unable to login through ssh. Accessing the system from console was possible thugh running many commands resulted in "Killed". The kernel stack trace was the same as in the original bug report.
There is no quick and dirty workaround documented yet on this bug report, so I add it. Do the following to get your system quickly back to usable state while waiting for the patched kernel: 1) disable starting "auditd" at boot (for example "chmod 000 /etc/init.d/auditd" is an easy and ugly way to do it) 2) reboot the system (in my case the "reboot" command did not work, I had to hard-reset the system) Done. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450442 Title: Kernel Oops - unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null); Call Trace: [<ffffffff810fb39b>] ? audit_compare_dname_path+0x2b/0xa0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1450442/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
