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[Jamie Krug <625239@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doh! Sorry for the confusion, I was just looking for /etc/grub/default
instead of /etc/default/grub. I'll have another cup of coffee and try
this again ;-)

On another note, in an effort to get that file back (the one that I'd a
mistaken path for, which was there all along), I installed
startupmanager, which is just a GUI editor for GRUB2. I didn't set
anything fancy, but after doing so, I rebooted, and I see an uglier
splash screen, however, I've booted to tty7 twice in a row! I wish I
knew which change caused this, but I have a feeling that something minor
in the grub2 config has made this issue disappear for the moment.

I've compared a generic /etc/default/grub to the "good" one that was just generated by startupmanager, and there was only one very tiny difference...
BAD:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GOOD:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" splash vga=799"

The latter booted me to tty7 twice in a row! How on earth?? To be sure
it wasn't a fluke or some other change, I uninstalled startupmanager,
copied the old/original /etc/default/grub over the generated one, ran
update-grub and rebooted. Sure enough, I was on tty2 and saw the same
old error message on tty7; and also logged out and logged in to find
myself on tty8 again.

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X starts on wrong tty: pressing enter after 5 minutes crashes X
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