Comment 0 for bug 1751584

My system won't boot with the 4.13.0.36 kernel. Yesterday it hung at a flashing cursor screen. I updated a few packages yesterday (see below) and today it hangs at this screen:

Loading Linux 4.13.0.36-generic ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
_

Booting to the previous kernel (4.13.0-32) seems to work just fine.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.3 on a Thinkpad T430u with an Intel i5-3317U.

Is this possibly related to this bug?: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1742675

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04

$ apt-cache policy linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic
linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic:
  Installed: 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1
  Candidate: 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ tail -n 2 /var/log/apt/history.log
Upgrade: libpulsedsp:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), grub-common:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.16, 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.17), pulseaudio:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), google-chrome-stable:amd64 (64.0.3282.167-1, 64.0.3282.186-1), python-apt-common:amd64 (1.1.0~beta1build1, 1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.1), grub2-common:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.16, 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.17), grub-pc:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.16, 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.17), grub-pc-bin:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.16, 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.17), ntpdate:amd64 (1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.7, 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.8), ubuntu-drivers-common:amd64 (1:0.4.17.3, 1:0.4.17.6), python3-distupgrade:amd64 (1:16.04.23, 1:16.04.24), libpulse0:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), libpulse0:i386 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), ubuntu-release-upgrader-core:amd64 (1:16.04.23, 1:16.04.24), libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), python-apt:amd64 (1.1.0~beta1build1, 1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.1), pulseaudio-module-x11:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk:amd64 (1:16.04.23, 1:16.04.24), pulseaudio-utils:amd64 (1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7, 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.8), python3-apt:amd64 (1.1.0~beta1build1, 1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.1), base-files:amd64 (9.4ubuntu4.5, 9.4ubuntu4.6)
End-Date: 2018-02-24 10:22:59

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Feb 25 08:37:33 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-08 (1388 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: linux-hwe
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-05 (568 days ago)