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  1. Bug #1548587
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1548587

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Paul (prowla) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 15.10 VMWare guest won't show UI after upgrading to 4.2.0-30

I've just installed the update on 5 VMs and none of them would boot.

I've interrupted boot (by holding the Shift key whilst powering on the VM) to bring up the Grub menu (it took several attempts to get it), selected "Advanced options for Ubuntu", highlighted the previous kernel ("Ubuntu, with Linux 4.2.0-27-generic"), and booted.

Once the system came back up I logged in and did:

apt-get --purge remove linux-image-4.2.0-30-generic linux-image-extra-4.2.0-30-generic

My VM(s) will now reboot.

Looks like the new kernel is broke.

I'm running VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.0 build-3272444 on Windows 7 64-bit and my VMs are using open-vm-tools.