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@ajgreeny - Thanks very much for pointing out the link to that thread, that fixed the issue for me. Posting this reply from Ubuntu:D

Hello again Ubuntuers! Haven't been here in a while as 14.04 LTS has been running without problems for ages. But today it isn't. I did a fairly big upgrade including the following packages:


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Thanks again for your efforts.

I already marked it solved.

Brilliant maestro, brilliant, thank you so much for finding that - I couldn't. Thanks to schragge too who answered it first time around.

I saw that error message, but totally ignored it thinking...

I have been jogging along with 14.04 for a long while with no problems whatsoever until recently when I did an upgrade which installed a new kernel version (upgraded 3.13.0-49 to 3.13.0-51). This...

You are right enough in saying that gksudo launches the password entry dialog box, trouble is, it won't run the command that follows it. I have tried backticks, pipes, double ampersands,...

I'll try that mcduck. In the meantime 'Rename as Root' was a piece of cake:


sudo mv %f `zenity --entry`

Only tested on Ubuntu so far, but it looks good. Obviously you need 'zenity'...

I never fail to be amazed at how unobservant (read - dumb) I can be. The reason it wouldn't work in Ubuntu and Manjaro was purely down to typos, but it took me hours to see them! On one I had...

Thanks for those replies people I would have replied earlier, but I got no notifications of the responses, sorry, don't know why.

Anyway as it happens the replies weren't needed as I managed to...

OK, thanks for that mcduck - that probably explains why I can't find an answer myself then.

I am using Thunar on xubuntu, but it makes no difference, every filemanager on every distro has an entry in the context menu called 'Paste'. Now I am fully aware of what it does, but I would like to...

Thought you might like to know, after adjusting grub as per my last post I went away for a while. As soon as I booted on my return, the boot failed with the same error as detailed in the opening...

I just may have solved this - although I don't really have enough time to test it thoroughly right now.

The clue came from the fact that when I switched to using Mint's grub on the mbr, Ubuntu...

Thank you both for the replies.

I will be away from my computer for a while, so I don't have time to mess with things right now, maybe later, although I have to say that I have reverted to using...

Wow, you never need be bored if you own a Linux computer!

I have tried both of Bashing-om's suggestions now, the grub reinstall and disabling the 30_os-prober for the other 2 installed distros and...

I decided to give Bahing-om's grub reinstall a try to see if I could get back to using Xubuntu's grub. I ran into a problem because attempting to use this method resulted in apt wanting to remove 17...

That is interesting and easy to accomplish, although I have to say I don't quite understand how that would make a difference, but hey, anything is worth a try, and there is plenty I don't understand,...

I will see how I get on using the Mint grub first, if that is successful I will have a go at a complete reinstall of grub on Xubuntu as you suggest.

So far I have done 4 cold boots using the Mint...

Well my last throw of the dice (for today) is to mess with grub. If it isn't hardware and it isn't kernel and it affects booting, then grub is a logical place to look. I started by reinstalling...

As expected the results of the smartctl long test for sda9 were absolutely normal, overall pass, every parameter way, way above the threshold value, no problem at all. Gparted, fsck and badblocks all...

Hello Jim, thanks for the reply.

Yes it is always sda9 that is the problem, but then again sda9 is the root partition for Xubuntu so it can't find its own root.

I have done several tests on...

Well that took even less time than the previous test.

First cold boot - normal.
Second cold boot (30 mins later) - /dev/sda9 does not exist
Third cold boot (immediately after the second) -...

Already done long before I started this thread my friend - every single log file in /var/log has been read through, the only results of any relevance at all are those given in my opening post.
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Actually it didn't take too long to find out the answer, the very next cold boot the error returned.

Thanks anyway, I realise what an obscure piece of nonsense this is, almost impossible to...

Thanks very much for the suggestion Bashing-om, I have rebuilt the initramfs for both installed kernels as you suggested and will let you know if it makes a difference. However, given that this error...