Ubuntu 16.04 unable to boot on Raspberry Pi 3

[Cerin]

I'm trying to run the Ubuntu 16.04 ARM image, published at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi/RaspberryPi3, but during boot, it will routinely give me one of two errors:

    "fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed"

    "null pointer exception"

Either message is fatal and requires me to manually power-cycle the Pi to continue. Often, the error will reoccur, but after 3 or 4 cycles it will usually boot successfully.

To rule out hardware problems, I've tested two different Pi3, as well as several SD cards, doing write checks on the SD cards to ensure there are no faults. These errors have occurred on many different combinations of Pi3s and cards, implying it's a software issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

definitely not an issue with the image build system, moving it to the kernel(though these are completely unsupported community images, i'm not sure they use the properly maintained kernel from the archive in which case you should contact the image author instead)