Black screen with blinking cursor during dist-upgrade on Yakkety
Bug #1615379 reported by
Wise Melon
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu GNOME |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I was just running a 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' on my Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 VM with GNOME 3.20 when suddenly the screen just went black and there was a flashing cursor on it:
Yakkety_
When pressing ENTER the cursor would move down, but nothing else would happen, I was forced to force a cold shutdown.
Here is the output from "/var/log/
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And the output from "/var/log/
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Which VM? I'm just guessing but maybe the VirtualBox graphics drivers malfunctioned when you updated the kernel.