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!
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.
😂 Luckily the desktop came back – I don’t know if it was because I pressed some
alt+ctrl+F...key. Thereafter I rebooted, just to be on the safe side. I think it’d be total desperation for me (newbie) if something like that happened…