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[Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Given the number of bugs that the Kernel Team receives during any
development cycle it is impossible for us to review them all. Therefore,
we occasionally resort to using automated bots to request further
testing. This is such a request.

We are approaching release and would like to confirm if this bug is
still present. Please test again with the latest development kernel and
indicate in the bug if this issue still exists or not.

You can update to the latest development kernel by simply running the
following commands in a terminal window:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If the bug still exists, change the bug status from Incomplete to
Confirmed. If the bug no longer exists, change the bug status from
Incomplete to Fix Released.

Thank you for your help, we really do appreciate it.


** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Tags added: kernel-request-3.11.0-7.14

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1170150

Title:
  vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel
  updates of secure boot UEFI machines

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “linux” source package in Raring:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux” source package in Saucy:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Kernel updates on a UEFI pc with secure boot enabled have the vmlinuz
  and initrd.img symlinks updated, but they point to the unsigned
  versions of the kernel instead of the signed ones.  The pc was set up
  with secure boot on, has never been booted with secure boot off, and
  no runtime problems have been noted from the wrong symlinks.  Having
  the links to the signed versions is highly desirable, in order to set
  up a USB stick with its own EFI directory to boot Ubuntu, and not have
  to worry about changing the USB stick's grub.cfg files.

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