I found a solution that worked for me.
I bet after the completion of dist-upgrade it said something about not being able to upgrade gedit:
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Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gedit_3.20.2-2_amd64.deb
Btw, here's a way to get into a working terminal
From the boot menu, where you choose from live, persistence, etc
go over persistence, press Tab, and add "single" at the end of the line of boot parameters you're presented with.
If you don't see this boot menu (might be, depending on how you created the USB boot), just figure out a way to get into "single user mode"
This way you should not get the problem and have a working command line prompt
from there you can try
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apt-get -f install
this tries to fix uninstalled packages
or re-run update and dist-upgrade
you should get the gedit problem
What can you do?
Start from zero.
Either boot into live and redo the persistency procedure or create a new USB if you don't feel like risking the quicker method.
BEFORE giving update and dist-upgrade, put gedit into hold
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apt-mark hold gedit
this will prevent apt to upgrade it
Run
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apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
worked for me. Been able to reboot just fine. Hope it works for you.
There may be a more elegant way to fix this, this is what I came up with.
Let me know if it worked