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Black screen blinking prompt during apt upgrade: what to do? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxonthinkpad

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1179690

I just did an apt update followed by an apt upgrade, and during the latter the screen went all blank with a blinking prompt. Unresponsive to keyboard and touchpad. I also hear the fans. It's been like this for 10 min now. I think some Nvidia drivers were included in the upgrade. What to do? Is it safe to emergency reboot? I appreciate any suggestions also for post-checks. Cheers!

Update: The suggestion by @[email protected] worked!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Had the same thing happen to me the other day. Rebooted and changed to another terminal with ctrl+alt+f2 then re-ran apt upgrade. It failed with a message saying to run some dpkg command first. It was finally able to recompile the kernel and get the nvidia drivers installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow that sounds much more distressing!