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?
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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.
Well it’s happened multiple times now. I think it went wrong once and I did have to update within a TTY session to fix it.
Maybe I should just do that by default. Still, it feels like I shouldn’t have to?
It does feel like that! I remember having to do that on one of my Ubuntu installs because of Nvidia drivers. On my Pop!_OS, however, it doesn’t do that.
I think you can use the TTY to update Nvidia drivers until the next major update of Pop!_OS and by then it should be fixed.
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I have nothing productive to add, but I will say the same thing happens on my Windows 11 laptop from my work. And updates are forced by the management protocols, so every couple weeks I lose my screen until I restart. Classic Nvidia.
Do it over tmux. When the screen goes out switch tty, and load up the tmux session to see if it is finished.
Or is it dead even from that?
Not sure what tmux is. I tried to open the terminal using the function commands but I was having a hard time remembering which one. I tried several keys and none of them were working.
Next time it has another update I’ll try to be more prepared
tmux is a terminal multiplexer. Basically if you made the session in tmux, the terminal would still be an active session and you could pull it from another tty.
Or you could do it over ssh.