Ctrl+Alt+F3 to does not take me to a CLI. I get a black screen with a
flashing cursor, but no prompt or any keyboard interaction.

Mark

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 3:49 PM Michael Ewan <[email protected]> wrote:

> As this article suggests,
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1239025/after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-20-04-oh-no-something-went-wrong
> Get into a console login, and run the updates/upgrades again.  I do
> not have any specific help since I have not seen that message myself.
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM Mark Phillips
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Oryx Pro laptop. I performed a normal
> > update/upgrade and after a reboot, a white screen appeared with a sad
> > monitor graphic and "Oh no, something went wrong!" message.
> >
> > I have 2 drives, one for the OS and one for /home/mark in the machine
> (sym
> > link to OS drive). I created a writable Ubuntu 24.04 Live USB stick and I
> > can boot the machine and access both drives. What diagnostics should I
> run
> > to diagnose the problem? Especially to determine if I need a new OS
> drive.
> >
> > Or, should I just install Ubuntu 24.04 on the OS drive? The downside is
> the
> > time needed installing all my apps and removing/reinstalling the
> /home/mark
> > drive (so I don't mess that up!).
> >
> > System76 tech support was next to worthless. Waited 6 days for "We are
> very
> > busy so just reinstall the OS".
> >
> > Thanks!
>

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