Still an issue for me in Xenial (16.04.2 LTS) on a MacBook Pro 5,5.
Trying to recover after a crash, and can't get past the
Welcome to emergency mode!
...[some suggestions]...
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
Stage. No keyboard input accepted whatsoever (although
Public bug reported:
Two problems:
1. Some attempts at printing a 20 page document from LibreOffice show
apparently reproducible output errors on particular pages (eg 3, 4, 8 etc) with
some lines 'smudged' but readable, some totally garbled, and others almost
correct.
2. With some attempts at