Or any combination of Ctrl+Alt and any F key On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 4:20 PM Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! >> >
