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?
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.