From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mint

Before hitting the hay Friday night, I saw the indicator
on the update icon. Thought I'd do a quick update and
turn in.

During the update, video went away. No signal, then signal
came back, but no display. ctrl-alt-f2, f3, etc. didn't bring
it back.

I waited a while so that the update could complete, then rebooted.
I figured the video drivers had been updated, overwriting the manually-installed drivers I had. So I booted to rescue mode
and tried re-running the NVIDIA driver installer.

During the update, video went away again. I reasoned that it was
loading the drivers in /lib/modules, and that they were _wrong_.

After using the Big Red Button (acpi shutdown, powered back on),
I went into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video and removed
the nvidia drivers, then rebooted.

Going back into rescue mode, I ran the NVIDIA installer, which worked[*],
then did "telinit 5" to bring up lightdm. Everything is back to normal.

Three things:
1) I've never had a Mint update go south like that before.
2) I've learned not to update when I'm about to leave
the computer, because that was 15-20 minutes that I'd rather
have been falling asleep.
3) This is all probably due to me running the latest vanilla kernel
and drivers -- something got confused in the update process.

[*] The command I used was:
# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.82.09.run --skip-module-load

...which I have always been doing lately, since the modules
have been barfing when the installer loads them. Something to
do with the drm modules, which (thankfully) do load properly
when I "telinit 5".
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-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
OS: Linux 6.16.8 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18
NVIDIA: 580.82.09 Mem: 258G
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