Comment 2 for bug 1627984

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-09-28 00:58 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #7)
> Could you try upgrading to the newer 4.8.0-17.19 kernel that was promoted to
> the release pocket last night:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/4.8.0-17.19
>

Tested with latest kernel i.e. 4.8.0-17.19, not seeing OOPs or any other error messages.

root@pkvmhab010:~# update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-17-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ast_dp501_fw.bin for module ast

root@pkvmhab010:~# apt install -y btrfs-progs/yakkety
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '4.7-1' (Ubuntu:16.10/yakkety [ppc64el]) for 'btrfs-progs'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
btrfs-progs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/562 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,656 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package btrfs-progs.
(Reading database ... 130815 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../btrfs-progs_4.7-1_ppc64el.deb ...
Unpacking btrfs-progs (4.7-1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-17-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ast_dp501_fw.bin for module ast
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up btrfs-progs (4.7-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-17-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ast_dp501_fw.bin for module ast
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-0ubuntu1) ...