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! >
