GRUB loop boot since kernel update (4.13.0.25 from 4.13.0.21)

Asked by Yosha872

Hello I wish to warn about a serious issue (loop reboot after updates on 2018-01-13), I have a laptop on Xubuntu 17.10 (32 bits) used only for web browsing. It’s a old HP 6730s (CPU Intel Celeron T1600. BIOS : 68PZU Ver F.0C 03/12/2009). After one week without admin logging, I have logged in order to do some updates, automatic security updates occured (‘unattend-upgr’) before I could launch myself the updates, the OS asked me to reboot. Now every time I get on the GRUB menu then select 'Ubuntu', the PC reboots !. I have the feeling that this issue might occurs on other PCs, how to provide you some logs ?

From the GRUB menu, when going to ‘Ubuntu advanced options’, I can see that the current kernel version is ‘4.13.0.25-generic’ . When selecting the previous kernel ‘4.13.0.21-generic’ I can run Xubuntu !.

syslog : https://pastebin.com/X9cfEyM9
kern.log : https://pastebin.com/P1XkzCHq

See also : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1743091 (I opened it in order to grab more infos).

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Expired
For:
Ubuntu linux-meta Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Have you tested your RAM using Memtest86 from GRUB?

Revision history for this message
Yosha872 (yosha) said :
#2

> Have you tested your RAM using Memtest86 from GRUB?

I tested today (2018-01-13) the 2 GB of RAM. After 3 pass (2 hours), MemTest does not find any errors (0).

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
#3

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

Revision history for this message
Yosha872 (yosha) said :
#4

How I have get out the issue : by restoring the previous Linux Kernel (from the GRUB menu).

Revision history for this message
Yosha872 (yosha) said :
#5

As of today, the kernel has upgraded itself without issue. Perhaps this was a disk (SSD 32 GB) issue.
Now this computer is running Xubuntu 18.04 fine.
uname -r = 4.15.0-22-generic