Comment 13 for bug 1638788

it's hard to say. I definitely *did* see this issue in 14.04 and fixed it with the same workaround. the problem is that at the time I didn't investigate too much since I just blamed it on a faulty LID switch and the workaround was acceptable for me.
I had the LID0 disabled on every bootup through rc.local and never did a fresh install until now when I received a whole new laptop. so all upgrades from 14.04 through 16.04 just had the rc.local untouched with LID0 disabled.

also, reading the feedback from Ketil and working on this more I noticed that disabling XHC1 *sometimes* would work for me too. but not all the time. I have yet to figure out a pattern when it would work with only XHC1 vs when LID0 needs to be disabled as well