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 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

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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

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After further reading I concluded that canonical-livepatch only patches the most critical updates in summary very few per year.

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