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Re:Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released by newman314 on Friday February 17, 2017 @12:34PM (#13670063)
One key item to note is that switching to upgraded kernel path breaks live kernel patching at this time.

I was considering switching I saw this caveat...

"For clarity, the Canonical Livepatch Service is only available and supported against the generic and lowlatency GA kernel flavours for 64-bit Intel/AMD (aka, x86_64, amd64) builds of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) release. HWE kernels are not supported at this time."

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/RollingLTSEnablementStack

Also, it's not clear if there is a different kernel/command for upgraded kernels on a server.

EDIT: looks like it's going to be "linux-generic-hwe-16.04"

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Re:Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released by fulafel on Sunday February 19, 2017 @09:24AM (#13679834)
Do people see evidence of the live patching system doing something?

For me, canonical-livepatch status --verbose has never showed me any fixes, running linux-image-generic on 16.04.

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Re:Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released by newman314 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:45PM (#13682606)
Not really so far. I enabled it a couple months ago but have not seen any changes.

It's not clear to me if upgrading to HWE would correctly disable the livepatching.

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