From: vallor@cultnix.org   
      
   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   
      "Jean-Luc Picard and Mister Clean: Separated at birth?"   
      
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