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 @nottheengineer@feddit.de worked!

  • @RiotEarpEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    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.