Public bug reported:
I've tried several solutions to fix screen tearing in 16.04, but nothing
seems to work. Screen tearing is so bad that the display is fragmented
into 2-4 horizontal and diagonal sections during any scrolling event,
along with artifacts while updating the screen in any way,
This is a serious issue when there is no physical access to the machine.
I can confirm this issue on 16.04 happen after adding a new harddrive to
the fstab and subsequently reformatting the drive. At reboot, I have to
options to resolve the situation. All network requests are ignored,
because