Errors mei_me 0000:00:03.0: timer: connect/disconnect timeout. after upgrade to 14.04

Question

I upgraded from ubuntu 12.10 to 14.04 and now I get

dmesg|grep mei

[   19.246502] mei_me 0000:00:03.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[   24.280045] mei_me 0000:00:03.0: timer: connect/disconnect timeout.
[   24.280050] mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: dev_state = ENABLED
[   30.292023] mei_me 0000:00:03.0: timer: connect/disconnect timeout.
[   30.292030] mei_me 0000:00:03.0: unexpected reset: dev_state = ENABLED
[...]

How can I fix this?

Solution

See the discussion: Console gets message about mei_me timeout every 5 seconds

You can either disable the imei-me module or turn off the management engine from your BIOS, using Ctrl+P during reboot.