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?

  • Nato Boram@lemmy.wtf
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    3 days 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.

    • wesley@yall.theatl.socialOP
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      12 hours ago

      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?