I have been running canonical-livepatch for a year or so but constantly find that I have to reboot my server due to kernel patching. Now recently I have been running Linux kernel 5.11.0-1021-aws.
Then recently came a security patch https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5135-1 which was installed (automatically). Now the system requires me to reboot because of this tiny patch.
$ cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs
linux-image-5.11.0-1022-aws
linux-base
canonical-livepatch status
last check: 35 minutes ago
kernel: 5.11.0-1021.22~20.04.2-aws
server check-in: succeeded
patch state: ✓ no livepatches needed for this kernel yet
tier: updates (Free usage; This machine beta tests new patches.)
machine id: ec22769b485772537a25ff41239f34b3
Is this how livepatch is supposed to work? I find myself rebooting the system at least once per month due to kernel patches. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe my system installs the patch before live-patch have a chance? Or have I simply misunderstood how live patch is working?
All the best !
Daniel
