Just to update this, a security patch released yesterday seems to have corrected this. The kernel in 16.04 LTS is now on 4.13.0-32, released for USN-3548-2. Ubuntu 17.10 has the same fixes in USN-3548-1.
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I'm getting exactly the same in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. If I use the default boot, which on mine is 4.13.0-31, I get that failure. If I choose to boot an earlier kernel, 4.13.0-26 in this case, it works fine. Within Ubuntu, I'm actually running Splunk in CentOS containers, for demonstration purposes, and the affect of the Ubuntu kernel version goes through to them.
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