Iām coming up with a different scenario so let me run this by you:
My harddrive is partitioned like this:
sda1 - swap
sda2 - / (ubuntu-mate 16.04 with kernel 4.4)
sda3 - home
sda4 - extended partition
sda5 - backup partition for home partition
sda6 - ubuntu-mate 16.10
sda7 - not used at present
I use mate 16.04 as my main system because my primary interest is stability. I was having a problem with virtualbox crashing so I installed it in mate 16.10 on sda6. Everything worked fine. No problems. I thought I had all the conflicts worked out and itās a lot of trouble to logout and login to a different partition, so I installed virtualbox in my 16.04 partition on sda2. I was in the middle of installing Chessmaster8000 when all the above problems began. (I had previously installed it in the 16.10 partition with no problem.)
Iām thinking the problem may be some conflict with the 4.4 kernel. Even though fsck says that my file system is clean, when I boot up with a live USB and run fsck it cannot locate any partition other than sda2 - it says that maybe the others donāt exist. Obviously something got scrambled in the crash.
I going to do a reinstall, but before I do, if there are any log files that may prove helpful, let me know and Iāll send them to you.
Since Im going to do a reinstall, and my primary interest is stability, and I know there have been some stability issues with 16.04 and 16.04.1, do you think these issues have been addressed in 16.04.2? I would seem that upgrading to the new kernel might address at least some of the issues. Or should I go back to 14.04 until these issues have been resolved?
Thanks, Jim