Unfortunately apport-collect just says "no additional info collected" (see pic added). I presume because 'ubuntu-meta' is not an installed package????? I struggled a bit trying to decide what the best way was to report a bug like this because it's not actually a bug in the kernel itself, it's just that I believe the 5.8 series kernel should not be installed without specific user action to do so.
That had been the case in the past. LTS installs using the original iso or the first point release iso would remain on the original GA (General Availability) throughout the duration of the 5 year support cycle. In fact I see the HWE Wiki has been updated to say "The 20.04.2 and newer point releases will ship with an updated kernel and X stack by default for the desktop": https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack And 20.04.2 is not due for release until early February. It's worth mentioning that LTS point releases are frequently delayed by a week or two if bugs are encountered. Anyway I would expect an installation performed with 20.04.2 media to include the HWE kernel. You'll also notice that they do say "kernel and X stack" and as mentioned above the HWE X stack is not yet even in the repos! I will probably be testing the 20.04.2 daily build very soon and I'll then report a bug against 'linux-generic-hwe-20.04' making note that the accompanying X stack is missing. And yes, this does effect only Ubuntu Desktop because as mentioned above I checked some of the other flavors manifests. Only the Ubuntu isos have the HWE version of kinux-generic installed. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2021-01-14 19-45-49.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1911614/+attachment/5453132/+files/Screenshot%20from%202021-01-14%2019-45-49.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1911614 Title: Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.04.1 images use linux-generic-hwe-20.04 instead of linux-generic Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Just as the title says, the 20.04 and 20.04.1 images use the HWE version of linux-generic resulting in upgrades to the 5.8 series kernel. This seems to effect Ubuntu only, or I should say I checked the Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu iso manifests which all correctly list linux-generic. Also HWE is not truly complete without the accompanying HWE Xstack. I checked all the documentation I could find and this was clearly not intentional. In fact the manifest for Ubuntu Focal Beta still used linux-generic, so this got messed up some time between April 3, 2020 and April 23, 2020. Here's just one example of the documentation for kernel support in Focal LTS: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle#ubuntu-kernel-release-cycle Installations performed with 20.04 and 20.04.1 media were supposed to remain on the 5.4 series kernel throughout Focal's 5 year lifespan as had been the case since HWE was introduced. The first step in fixing this needs to be stopping fresh installs of Focal using the 20.04 and 20.04.1 media from immediately upgrading to the 5.8 series kernel. It might be a little tricky to revert users from 5.8 to 5.4, but there have been reports of breakage, particularly concerning Broadcom wifi drivers and some graphics problems. But the graphics problems could also be exacerbated by the lack of the matching HWE Xstack? At any rate it's a bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1911614/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
