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!
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I ran into something similar on Linux Mint. Never seen my installation kill itself before until this. Ended up booting into Recovery mode from the grub menu, and rolled back using Timeshift restore.
For me, the culprit was the
ubuntu-drivers-update, because after I rolled back, I was able to install all the other updates without issue. I just blacklisted this one update to keep it from showing until the next version is released.Thank you, I’ll check the status of that in apt.
Try booting into console mode. Maybe there was a botched update that needs to be fixed. Below are some instructions on how to boot into tty.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/01/how-to-boot-to-console-text-mode-in.html
Cheers!
Try switching to virtual console (alt+ctrl+F<1-6>). If it does not work, reboot with alt+sysrq+REISUB (sysrq is the same key as prtsc, REISUB must be typed sequentially).
Cheers. Didn’t know about the last keyseq!
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I have to save all this good advice :)
Something funky is probably going on in one of your updated packages. After reboot, are you able to get into the desktop?
Reminds me of that time Linus (of Linus Tech Tips) accidentally uninstalled his desktop when he’s trying to install Steam on his Linux Mint desktop. Turns out it was due to botched dependency list in the community steam package, which cause apt to prompt to uninstall gnome when he tried to install Steam, and as usual he just proceed without a second thought lol.
