Comment 15 for bug 1662137

I have Bionic with friendly-recovery 0.2.38ubuntu1 and the problem still occurs. I apparently had three filesystems that were in "timeout". I went to recovery to see what was causing this and got ~120 seconds before the session was destroyed and the recovery options menu was redisplayed. I couldn't get anything to work after that. I hit down arrow many times to try to get to the root shell item and it moved down one line to the second menu item after a few down arrow keys and then wouldn't budge.

To me it seems there are SEVERAL (at least two, but maybe more) shells all competing for keystrokes.

FYI: I think the filesystem errors were caused by my installation of a new NVMe SSD and knocking loose a SATA interface cable or two. I think this is a good way to reproduce this problem, in fact. Set up several filesystems (EXT4 or BTRFS or even VFAT) on a drive then power off and pull the cable and boot again. You'll likely see the same effect I had.