I have a reoccurring issue when there’s a new graphics driver update through the PopShop. Once the update begins the screen goes completely black and doesn’t come back on.

Usually I wait a while and then I have to force shutdown the computer and then afterwards (if the driver finished updating) everything is fine.

Anyone know a workaround for this or some better solution?

  • shiftyeyes@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I had the same issue on popos Cosmic alpha and I couldn’t login to the desktop, kept getting error messages since it probably didnt finish upgrading before I powered down manually, so I had to hit

    Ctrl + Alt + F2

    Logged with usename and password into terminal

    Some terminal commands that fixed it for me (not necessarily in this order)

    sudo dpgk --configure -a

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt full-upgrade
    sudo apt autoremove
    sudo apt autoclean

    I’m running Cosmic and have been having issues with updates through popshop. Running updates manually through terminal has been more reliable, otherwise i gotta run sudo apt full-upgrade every now and then to fix whatever broke with popshop upgrades.

    Good luck.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    The driver is swapping out and being reinsertered. Depending on your card and monitor, you may just need to unplug and replug your monitor to force it to switch/set mode.

    If it’s killing your desktop session as well, that sounds like something you have installed is problematic as this shouldn’t happen.

    If you can still ping and ssh into the machine, it’s still fine and doing what it should, but some other combination of things are causing your display to not come back online.

    • wesley@yall.theatl.socialOPEnglish
      21·
      14 hours ago

      I think that’s a good idea. I can’t believe I didn’t try unplugging the monitor.

      I don’t know what I would have that could cause it. I just have an out of the box Pop OS install with steam and some other regular apps. All I do on this computer is browse the web and play games for the most part.

  • Nato Boram@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    That doesn’t happen on my machine, so I can’t exactly test it and report back, but

    Can you try updating in a tty? If the desktop crashes, tty sessions should be unaffected. Maybe it’s just a bad version or something and it’ll get resolved once the updates are properly installed.