Ubuntu 15.10 Kernel Regression That Broke Graphics Displays In VMWare Patched

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:21AM from the call-and-response dept.

prisoninmate writes: On Monday, February 22, 2016, Softpedia reported on the availability of new kernel updates for several of Canonical's supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu 15.10, for which five kernel vulnerabilities have been patched at that point in time. And from the looks of it, the respective kernel updates introduced a regression, which Canonical patched four days later, on February 26, 2016, saying that the issue was introduced along with the fixed vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) and it broke graphics displays for those running the OS in VMWare VMs.

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Re:It highlights the sorry state of Linux today. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-27 02:58 · Score: 5, Informative

Sheesh. This is Canonical. They don't have the reputation of stability to begin with.
Bunch of monkeys tampering with the kernel as if they were competent. Linus snubbed their proposal of maintaining the long term branch for a reason.
14.04 LTS was also broken by theapeman · 2016-02-27 04:27 · Score: 3, Informative

I found that 14.04 LTS would not run with the latest kernel under vmware But it has been updated and now does run (3.19.0-51)