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This may be a duplicate of Livepatch - Does This Even Do Anything? I have livepatch supposedly running on two machines, one with 18.04.5 LTS 4.15.0-147-generic and one with 20.04.2 LTS 5.8.0-55-generic. I installed it a while ago using the free for personal use system. As I recall at one time it was able to install patches. However, it now always says that I am up to date without ever installing anything. E.g.,

# canonical-livepatch status
last check: 3 seconds ago
kernel: 5.8.0-55.62~20.04.1-generic
server check-in: succeeded
patch state: no livepatches needed for this kernel yet

But it is not true that no patches are needed. There was just a security announcement saying that there was a patch for CVE-2021-3609 applying to this release.

kdo
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  • Seems obvious but you've checked that >Software & Updates>Livepatch is set to on? Can you ping Canonical? – Thompson Dawes Jul 25 '21 at 21:58
  • Yes, @ThompsonDawes, Software & Updates>Livepatch is set to on. See above: livepatch claims that it has succeeded in connecting to the server, but no patches are needed. – kdo Jul 26 '21 at 23:14

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