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Black screen blinking prompt during apt upgrade: what to do?

I just did an apt update followed by an apt upgrade, and during the latter the screen went all blank with a blinking prompt. 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!

skillissuer ,

something similar happened to me lately (on linux mint): i’ve somehow lost xorg and cinnamon due to botched wine install or maybe uninstall. what worked for me: i was able to install them again without gui, reboot (this time getting gui back) then run timeshift (that worked somehow) to restore to yesterday’s backup. note: you will be probably able to access your files in cli, and if in doubt back them up, then if all else fails you can spin up new install of your distro. it’s most likely recoverable but it will take an evening in the worst case

since then i’m making full backups every month

pglpm OP ,
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I have to save all this good advice :)

bizdelnick ,

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).

pglpm OP ,
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Cheers. Didn’t know about the last keyseq!

tarjeezy ,

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-common 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.

pglpm OP ,
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Thank you, I’ll check the status of that in apt.

Yubishi ,

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.

linuxuprising.com/…/how-to-boot-to-console-text-m…

pglpm OP ,
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Cheers!

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