Doh! Sorry for the confusion, I was just looking for /etc/grub/default instead of /etc/default/grub. I'll have another cup of coffee and try this again ;-)
On another note, in an effort to get that file back (the one that I'd a mistaken path for, which was there all along), I installed startupmanager, which is just a GUI editor for GRUB2. I didn't set anything fancy, but after doing so, I rebooted, and I see an uglier splash screen, however, I've booted to tty7 twice in a row! I wish I knew which change caused this, but I have a feeling that something minor in the grub2 config has made this issue disappear for the moment. I've compared a generic /etc/default/grub to the "good" one that was just generated by startupmanager, and there was only one very tiny difference... BAD: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" GOOD: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" splash vga=799" The latter booted me to tty7 twice in a row! How on earth?? To be sure it wasn't a fluke or some other change, I uninstalled startupmanager, copied the old/original /etc/default/grub over the generated one, ran update-grub and rebooted. Sure enough, I was on tty2 and saw the same old error message on tty7; and also logged out and logged in to find myself on tty8 again. -- X starts on wrong tty: pressing enter after 5 minutes crashes X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625239 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
