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Anyone have any luck with Ubuntu 5.15 kernels?

I have had no luck getting any of the Ubuntu 5.15 kernels working. They all seem to hang at boot after displaying they're mounting the initramfs. The 5.14 kernels through 5.15.21 work fine.

Anyone had any luck getting these kernels to work?

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I updated the bug over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1953671 as well.

We are able to boot by adding:
acpi=force

to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
in: /etc/default/grub
Such that the full line reads:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force"

 

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Fat fingered.  I meant to say that I've had no issues with 5.14 kernels through 5.14.21, not 5.15.21.....

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Updated my Fedora 35 workstation install and is running fine on kernel 5.15.

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And my Open SUSE Tumbleweed VM  just updated to 5.15 and it’s working fine. It’s just that I’m having a devil of a time with Ubuntu and getting 5.15 kernels to boot. 

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Will have a try when I get the time. Always fun to experiment with these kind of things.

Any Ubuntu version or specific (not an Ubuntu guy so not sure what versions run which kernel).

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Ditto. Any pointers here greatly appreciated, because 5.14 is now EOL.

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Something Ubuntu is doing is broken because 5.15 kernels work fine with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora 35. 

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@Soepie I’ve tried the 5.15 kernels with both 21.10 Impish and 22.04 Jammy (recent builds). Same hang on boot on both of them. 

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I've just raised https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1953671 to see if we can move this along from the Ubuntu side.

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Thank you very much.

There's obviously something wonky with Canonical's build since SUSE and Fedora builds of 5.15 work just fine.

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So first you need to disable wayland. Then I was able to boot with graphics by adding `acpi=force` to the linux command in grub.

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I updated the bug over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1953671 as well.

We are able to boot by adding:
acpi=force

to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
in: /etc/default/grub
Such that the full line reads:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force"

 

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
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I can also confirm that this change allows me to install and boot the 5.15.14 kernel on 22.04 Jammy.

Thank you @cyprienlaplace and @Mikero .

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Fantastic, thank you so much for the fast workaround!

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This is great - but how/where do I add this? How do I get to /etc/default/grub in the MacOS finder? do I open a .vdmk? 

Thanks!

We are able to boot by adding:
acpi=force

to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
in: /etc/default/grub
Such that the full line reads:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force"

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Mikero
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When the Live CD installer is still booted, the installation path is `/target/` 

So you'd edit the file at /target/etc/default/grub

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Thanks! Can I fix my existing VM this way?

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Mikero
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Sort of... The VM runs when it's in this state, so if you enabled the sshd service you can just ssh into it and change it manually.

Otherwise, you'd have to manually mount it, and then you would choose the mount point (/media/mount or something).

If it's a blank VM, it's probably easier to just start over and make the change after the installation but before the guest reboots.

 

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Don't forget to run 'update-grub" as a superuser after you make the changes to /etc/default/grub so that the changes get reflected in the boot partition.

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