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 Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584716 Title: Text corruption in various Gnome apps since Xenial upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop/+bug/1584716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
