Failing any brighter ideas, this should be pretty bisectable to figure out what happened. Hardware availability is the main problem. Would you be able to use your system to bisect to the commit introducing the bug?
Actually before we get to that, could you try installing the 14.04 slof package on the 16.04 system, and see whether that fixes it? ** Also affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1563887 Title: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1563887/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs