Well the surrogate server is an HP # Slimline.. did see hits in research that the slimline was vulnerable to this
Installed the up to date distro on the main server today (same as on the HP Slimline)
The i2c annoyance is not present on the newly loaded main server.
Several other differences are experienced. I am not used to software that runs differently on different machines. Is that normal in this business?
https://lists.launchpad.net/kernel-packages/msg91528.html
HP Pavilion Slimline s3100n