[ale] News: Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder

[Jim Lynch]

I seem to recall that Ubuntu servers were hanging at boot time after the 
most recent updates which supposedly addressed the current Intel issues.

Jim.


On 01/18/2018 11:12 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
> So, my question at this point:
> We haven't heard anything similar out of SUSE, and I haven't heard of 
> anything in the Debian/Ubuntu world?  Are we to assume we are "good" 
> if we have SUSE and Debian/Ubuntu systems patched up, and that it is 
> just the RHEL world that can't get their act together? It seems to me 
> that we are likely to hear a "me too" out of the other vendors 
> following Red Hat's announcement.  Thoughts?  I'm going to pose the 
> same question to a SUSE heavy audience, see what I get, and report 
> back . . .
>
> Allen B.
>
> On 1/18/18 7:23 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder
>>
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/red_hat_spectre_firmware_update_woes/ 
>>
>>
>> Be careful out there.
>>
>> Anyone seen system instabilities from the different layers of patches?
>>
>> I've delayed patching the last few weeks to let others find most of the
>> issues first. ;)
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