[Testing Update] 2022-06-10 - Kernels, Pipewire, KDE Gear 22.04.2, Haskell, Python, LibreOffice

VirtualBox machine can not start or freezes when using Linux Kernel 5.18 and Intel 11th or 12th Gen.

The error messages from Journalctl:

Jun 16 21:50:43 zesko kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: 0xffffa48c478ab3c0
Jun 16 21:50:43 zesko kernel: kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:252!

The known issue: FS#74891 : kernel bug (upon boot) after upgrade to 5.18.arch1-1

Solution:

For Grub:

  1. Edit /etc/default/grub to add the Kernel parameter ibt=off
  2. sudo update-grub
  3. Reboot

Linux Kernel 5.17 has no issue but it is EOL.

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