I have a Dell Precision laptop with an nvidia GPU, today for the second time I’ve experienced a freeze while updating drivers. This also happened to me the last time a driver update was published. The display just froze and I couldn’t do anything, though it seemed it was just the display dying because I had some Youtube video playing at the time and the audio kept running. Tried to switch to another TTY and that froze too before I could login. I just left it alone for a few mintues, hoping it’s still running the upgrade in the background, then forced a cold boot and the laptop came up normally. I didn’t look for any logs or traces so don’t really have more info.

I’m running Wayland, not sure if it’s relevant/related.

Wondering if this is a known issue or if other people seen it. If it is known, anything I should do to avoid it?

  • RandomChainOP
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    10 months ago

    Worth a try. I should probably switch back to X11 anyway since Slack screen sharing is broken on Wayland for quite some time and it doesn’t look like they’re gonna fix it.