Extra characters at the end of /etc/fstab were causing grub2 update to make boot say there was no root. All I had to do was remove a lot of invisible characters added to /etc/fstab.
I could not get my x environment to load, just kept cycling back to graphic login screen as if I had typed a bad password but there was no message to that effect. I can now use xfce, but not unity. At some point I got into new grub2 code which no longer works with the search --no-floppy line in /boot/grub.cfg. That's not extra characters, sorry, but it's really obvious that menuentries in grub.cfg no longer boot and then x won't boot and with extra characters in /etc/fstab that's a second way grub2 menuentries won't boot, so how does this stuff get by untested? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584716 Title: Text corruption in various Gnome apps since Xenial upgrade Status in gnome-desktop package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release: 16.04 Since the Ubuntu Xenial upgrade, I've had various instances of text corruption. I use a gnome-shell session. I (think) see this only if the laptop has suspended and restored. I'm using the intel graphics driver from ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers (in a failed attempt to try and upgrade myself out of the issue), but it was happening before changing to a custom PPA. This affects such a wide array of parts of the desktop that I suspect it's likely to be a basic X11 driver or GTK-level bug. Screenshots attached. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop/+bug/1584716/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
