WiFi adapter, system speakers and brightness regulation stopped working after package upgrade

[Justyna Cybowska]

After an unattended upgrade (the packages upgraded listed at the end), at least following things crashed:
- WiFi adapter - not seen by the system
- system speakers - not seen
- cannot regulate the brightness of my laptop screen

Used system: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release: 18.04

version.log and lspci-vnvn.log in attachment

------------------- upgraded and installed packages ---------------------------

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:09:41
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: cron:amd64 (3.0pl1-128.1ubuntu1.1, 3.0pl1-128.1ubuntu1.2)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:09:49

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:09:53
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: dnsmasq-base:amd64 (2.79-1ubuntu0.5, 2.79-1ubuntu0.6)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:09:55

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:09:58
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: firefox:amd64 (99.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:11

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:15
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: firefox-locale-en:amd64 (99.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:16

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:19
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: firefox-locale-pl:amd64 (99.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 100.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:20

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:24
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libcurl3-gnutls:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.17, 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.18)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:25

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:29
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libnss3:amd64 (2:3.35-2ubuntu2.13, 2:3.35-2ubuntu2.14)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:30

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:33
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.15.0-176.185, 4.15.0-177.186)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:34

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:38
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: linux-signed-generic:amd64 (4.15.0.176.165, 4.15.0.177.166)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:38

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:42
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Upgrade: libcurl4:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.17, 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.18), curl:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.17, 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.18)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:43

Start-Date: 2022-05-12 20:10:47
Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
Install: linux-headers-4.15.0-177-generic:amd64 (4.15.0-177.186, automatic), linux-image-4.15.0-177-generic:amd64 (4.15.0-177.186, automatic), linux-headers-4.15.0-177:amd64 (4.15.0-177.186, automatic), linux-modules-4.15.0-177-generic:amd64 (4.15.0-177.186, automatic), linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-177-generic:amd64 (4.15.0-177.186, automatic)
Upgrade: linux-headers-generic:amd64 (4.15.0.176.165, 4.15.0.177.166), linux-image-generic:amd64 (4.15.0.176.165, 4.15.0.177.166), linux-generic:amd64 (4.15.0.176.165, 4.15.0.177.166)
End-Date: 2022-05-12 20:12:20

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[mazurkin (mazurkin)]

After update to 4.15.0-177 I have a frequent issues with detecting my Wi-Fi card on boot (Ubuntu 18.04, Lenovo P51), have to switch back to 4.15.0-176 for work.

       description: Wireless interface
       product: Wireless 8265 / 8275
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: wlp4s0
       version: 78
       serial: ac:ed:5c:62:8e:41
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.15.0-176-generic firmware=34.0.1 ip=192.168.0.125 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:144 memory:ecd00000-ecd01fff