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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 pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I have to save all this good advice :)