This fix works for me - thanks Martin and all.
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mountall vomits a shell onto virtual console when you run vi
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456806
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Unfortunately I spoke too soon. It seems like the issue has come back.
After upgrading I verified mountall wasn't still running when I logged
in with ps -A | grep mountall and got nothing back. But today, oddly
enough after flashing the BIOS, the issue seems to have returned.
Unfortunately on