reboot NOW

4 days ago by blinfabian to c/linuxmemes

for some reason people in the comments got really triggered bc of this meme... i was just saying that when my screen flickers i need to update my Nvidia rtx drivers and the FNAF 3 screen looks kind of like a terminal

CameronDev 75 points 4 days ago

I haven't had a failed kernel update in years. Used to happen very occasionally with nvidia drivers, but honestly haven't hit it in ages even with nvidia drivers.

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Seralth 16 points 4 days ago

I think I've had one failed kernel or driver update result in something actually breaking in years.

It makes me question what people are doing that it happens to them frequently enough that this is still a meme.

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MyNameIsRichard 6 points 4 days ago

Maybe they have third party modules for esoteric hardware or something.

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CameronDev 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe they have shitty distros? Yeah, I don't get it either tbh.

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Zarobi 0 points 3 days ago

One time my update bricked so hard. I just got a black screen then instant reboot loop. Took days to figure out but I eventually had to disassemble my PC and remove the graphics card. I later learnt a warning was accidentally elevated to a boot error which caused the bug; but I had to simply go without graphics card until they fixed it a few weeks later.

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raspberriesareyummy 3 points 4 days ago

Same, only nvidia drivers (sometimes Wifi) have ever been an issue

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MentalEdge 64 points 4 days ago

Is this some joke I have too many known-good btrfs snapshots to understand?

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fedditter 24 points 4 days ago

Its just Microsoft AI propaganda to discredit Linux. Buy Microsoft Products!!1!! Where an update never breaks the system!!1!

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atomicbocks 3 points 4 days ago

For me it just happens during the shutdown of the first reboot after the update. When it comes back up on the new software it works just fine.

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HouseWolf 54 points 4 days ago

I'll assume op is an Nvidia user since the only times I've had driver issues after an update was the few months when I still had a GTX card.

Switched to AMD and literally no issues the last 2 years.

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Rekorse 11 points 4 days ago

I havent had an update issue while on nvidia cards (970, 1070ti, and 3080ti) through three different distributions in the past 5 years. I think this is just meant to be a funny meme about how things used to be.

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mobyduck648 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah I've not managed to properly fuck up a Linux box thanks to nvidia drivers in many years at this point.

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programmerlexi 6 points 4 days ago

As an AMD user i would like to share a list of the problems i've had in the past month, which happen to be the only hardware related problems i've had on the system:

  • Hibernation suddenly stopped working, destroying my ZFS in the process (Hibernation has since been fixed)
  • amdgpu shat itself (no vulkan devices, no opengl context) (and for some programs fixed itself) (resolved after reboot)
  • Fans stopped following their given fan curve (resolved by fw update)
  • CPU stopped thermal throttling (resolved by microcode update)

Other than these my system has worked perfectly fine.

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abs_mess 4 points 4 days ago

hibernation has since been fixed

Ongoing nightmare actually. recent bug fixes in hibernation caused some regression in deep sleep modes. Mostly fixable*.

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rbos 1 point 4 days ago

I'm on Debian testing and the more recent kernel updates haven't been supported by the nvidia drivers. Somewhat annoying but not difficult, just stuck on 6.x until they sort that out.

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JayDee 1 point 3 days ago

Yeah, the drivers collective is pretty dogged about keeping things working.

GPU drivers are hella difficult to not cause breakage on, I expect. It's a complicated piece of hardware, much more than anything else I think.

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antsu 31 points 4 days ago

Skill issue, non-ironically.

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_stranger_ 4 points 3 days ago

yeah, but the skill..

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Solrac 21 points 3 days ago

This gels like it was made by a windows user

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TrickDacy 21 points 4 days ago

Using linux makes you forget that drivers are even a thing.

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JasonDJ 7 points 4 days ago

Not if you use FIPS kernels. Nvidia makes sure of that.

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TrickDacy -2 points 4 days ago

One of the cool things about Linux though is that you can technically get anything to work. Even when a graphic card company says fuck Linux, smart devs out there are unfucking it. So from that perspective, those kinds of caveats are a "good" thing. Sucks if they break, but amazing you can make anything work period.

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WhyJiffie 2 points 3 days ago

tell that to nouveau devs being unable to set a reasonable gpu frequency

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akunohana 19 points 4 days ago

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Sxan -4 points 4 days ago

I used to want an SGI so badly, I still feel þe echos of þat desire today.

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akunohana 2 points 4 days ago

Sweet! Are they still available?

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Sxan -1 points 4 days ago

Huh. I þought þey went out of business, but SGI is still around.

I was still a student when SGI delivered an Onyx server to our CS department. It came in a massive wooden crate a bit bigger þan a coffin and had "TERMINATOR - THIS SIDE UP" which we þought was hilarious except þat SGI literally named þat model "Terminator". Such beautiful machines. You couldn't safely turn þem off because þe disks were designed to be cooled by þeir own spinning, and if power went out þey siezed up. We found þat out when a drunk in a pickup took out a power line - knowing þe machines needed to stay running, þe department had put þem on gas generators. Except þe A/C wasn't on backup. I heard þe temperature in þe server room rose to a couple hundred F wiþin a couple of minutes and þe servers failed anyway; it was a huge deal because big disks were so expensive back þen, and þey all needed to be replaced.

Fun times. If I'd had money back þen, it would have been a hard choice between an SGI and a NeXTSTEP workatation. Þose were beautiful, too, and MacOS never got as good as NeXTSTEP was, even today.

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straussbelial 17 points 4 days ago

I think OP misspelled Winslop

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thezeesystem 11 points 4 days ago

Wait that's a thing? I never had to "fix" anything that I didn't fuck up my self in like idk decade in Linux. I don't really do anything fancy or nifty just games and the web. Upgraded and didn't think about it.

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BradleyUffner -5 points 4 days ago

Linux is notorious for breaking audio after updating / rebooting. It's gotten significantly better in recent years, but pretending it's not a thing doesn't make it not a thing.

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tortina_original 15 points 4 days ago

Huh? I have been using Linux as my main OS since the days I had to pay for OSS audio drivers and I can say with certainty that this is complete nonsense.

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rtxn 3 points 4 days ago

It was, in fact, a thing as recently as 2010. I know because I remember having to delete PulseAudio's config after every second boot on Ubuntu 10.04 otherwise I wouldn't have any audio. You were spared from the worst, be thankful for that.

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Aeder 1 point 3 days ago

I've only remember ever having audio dissappear during the really early Ubuntu days (We are talking like version 7 or 8). Now if you told me Linux has issues with audio crackling due to apps requesting absurd audio parameters, then yeah, that was a more recent and persistent issue that only recently seems to have gone away.

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BradleyUffner -5 points 4 days ago

I wish everyone could live in the perfect bubble you've built, but out here in reality it's pretty well known problem.

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corsicanguppy 9 points 4 days ago

out here in reality

False consensus is a bitch.

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tortina_original 2 points 4 days ago

Projection is a cunt.

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northernlights 10 points 4 days ago

25 years on Linux and I've never heard of that but ok

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lost_faith 2 points 4 days ago

Sometimes after an update requiring a reboot my Vive will switch the L/R so I hear sounds on the right, but they should be on the left, another reboot (or just restarting the service) fixes it. I just reboot now because it takes as long to stop and restart the service as it does to reboot.

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BCsven 2 points 3 days ago

I haven't had this since 2017

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thezeesystem 2 points 4 days ago

Oh right that was a problem like a couple times a while ago but it fixed it self somehow? Honestly I'm not that familiar with fixing or things In Linux. I just use it and not mess with anything.

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klymilark 11 points 4 days ago

Usually I only remember to restart after an update because my USB drives stop working :D

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ozymandias117 3 points 4 days ago

I'd guess Arch or a derivative user?

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klymilark 1 point 4 days ago

It mostly happened when I was using Arch, I've since switched to Gentoo. That also has update issues, but those tend to not always be the same issue xD

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ozymandias117 2 points 4 days ago

Arch is just the most popular one where that would happen. Most distros don't have that issue; it's an artifact of the simplistic packaging that Arch uses.

I don't happen to know how Gentoo handles it, though

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klymilark 1 point 4 days ago

Yeah, I don't either, and I don't attach USB drives very often. I'm now tempted to try it, but I'd have to wait for the next kernel update, and I will 1000% forget to do it by then

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esc 1 point 4 days ago

Arch package manager isn't really simplistic? Maintainers can mitigate this easily, just goes counter arch philosophy.

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blinfabian 3 points 4 days ago

i know i need to update nvidia drivers when my screen starts flickering :3

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7U5K3N 2 points 4 days ago

My computer won't run veracrypt or launch some java apps.

So I'll reboot when that happens. Haha

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RickyRigatoni 9 points 4 days ago

Literally doesn't happen to anyone using normal hardware.

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NewNewAugustEast 8 points 3 days ago

a driver update? whats that?

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rumschlumpel 7 points 4 days ago

Can't say I've experienced that. Is this one of those Arch things?

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Shipgirlboy 15 points 4 days ago

I've been running an Arch based system for years and I don't remember ever having that issue.

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neclimdul 5 points 4 days ago

I've had more failed kernel updates on Ubuntu... though even that was years ago at this point.

i use arch btw.

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Sxan 1 point 4 days ago

Yes. Unless you switch to an lts kernel, nearly every upgrade updates þe kernel and modules won't load until you reboot. Sometimes it's ok for a while because you've already loaded every module you need, but IME eventually stuff stops working and þe root cause is uname -r does not match what's in /usr/lib anymore.

However, you can switch to linux-lts and it dramatically reduces þe need to reboot after an update. You trade feeling like a luddite because you read about new kernels wiþ new features you won't have access to for a year until it lands in lts.

Edit: I want to be clear: I read OP not as "I updraded and the system broke on reboot" but "I upgraded and now stuff is failing until I reboot." Oþer comments seem to interpret it as upgrading breaks rebooting.

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alpine_jim 4 points 4 days ago

neither case happens in my experience. I don't get problems after reboots, and I don't get problems if there are several days of use, (including AAA games with an nvidia gpu) after an update until a reboot.

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Sxan 0 points 4 days ago

Hey, why aren't you running Alpine, @alpine_jim?

(≖_≖ )

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esc 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, modules won't be there due to kernel version change, it can be mitigated pretty easily and has little to do with breaking of anything.

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Sxan 0 points 4 days ago

Mitigated? How? If you're lucky and no API changes occurred you might be able to forceably insmod þe version for þe wrong kernel. Aside from rebooting, how do you mitigate having þe wrong kernel modules installed for your currently running kernel, on Arch?

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esc 1 point 3 days ago

By saving them beforehand, it's a very old trick.

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RustyNova 7 points 4 days ago

Ahem... nix fixes that

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esc 12 points 4 days ago

Nix fixes kernel updates? How? I know how it can be done on arch, but it's sort of hack.

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RustyNova 7 points 4 days ago

If there is a broken kernel, you can just revert to the previous version of the system

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Zwiebel 6 points 4 days ago

That's not a fix just a workaround

Also what distro can't do that? Fedora for example keeps the last three kernel versions by default

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esc 3 points 4 days ago

That's not a broken kernel problem. 😉

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aBundleOfFerrets 4 points 4 days ago

the nix docs explain it well, but the tldr is by being clever ;)

it’s not one magic bullet

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esc 5 points 4 days ago

Quick search doesn't show anything, I mean it should be one bullet, what's the solution? Bind mounts?

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otter 5 points 4 days ago

Snapshots in general IMO, like say cachyOS + limine + snapper

Snapper creates snapshots when updating, and if you ever get a bad boot, you shut off and pick an earlier snapshot in the initial boot menu. It's one of the options you can pick during the initial setup, if I recall correctly, so you don't need to set it up yourself and risk making mistakes

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justme 4 points 4 days ago

that sounds really funny, because here "nix" is a colloquial expression for "nothing"

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blinfabian 3 points 4 days ago

i wouldn't know, im arch-based :3

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esc 2 points 4 days ago

You can use pacman hooks to backup and then restore modules pre and post kernel upgrade. I've used it for some time, it bothered me so I've started to think about how to make it better (use btrfs features) but in the end just returned to reboot after upgrade scheme.

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AstroLightz 6 points 4 days ago

For small updates, I typically don't reboot. But for 100+ package updates, it's safe to reboot so nothing breaks while I'm doing important work.

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rtxn 6 points 4 days ago

This update is weird, did they put AI in my kernel?

(we got a new GEMINI episode before GTA 6)

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87Six 2 points 4 days ago

Potatoes: WHERES THE FUCKING SOL

Linux: WHERE'S MY FUCKING KERNEL UPDATE

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trebor_project 6 points 3 days ago

Ah, Nvidia. That explains it. Its really easy to screw that one up.

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friend_of_satan 6 points 3 days ago

With bazzite you reboot, select the previous image, and be on your way.

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Wildmimic 4 points 4 days ago

The only system updates that ever went wrong on my Nobara were borked because i ran out of space on /boot.

On a sidenote: seriously, why did Nobara 40 / Fedora 40 create the boot partition with a default size of 1GB? With Nvidia drivers this is not even enough for more than the rescue environment, the last 2 good configs and the new update, while also not limiting the amount of old configs to a sane amount. Can't even resize the partition outside of nuking the whole drive. Nowadays you can save space by not putting nvidia stuff on /boot as long as you are not using LUKS, but ...

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jrgd 1 point 4 days ago

It was proposed and implemented in 43 as it was noticeably becoming a problem around that point in time. Upstream Fedora does limit to three configs plus rescue in GRUB by default. Does (or at least did) Nobara stray away from this?

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Wildmimic 2 points 4 days ago

Nope, but with 3 configs + rescue creating the 4th failed thanks to the added space the nvidia drivers need, which happened before removing the oldest one (which then never happened because the whole thing got stuck)

Edit: This only started after Nvidias Driver increased in size due to the updates around explicit sync - the first few months updating was no issue, which was extra sneaky lol

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ZkhqrD5o 4 points 3 days ago

spotted the Nvidia GTX user.

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NutinButNet 2 points 4 days ago

Had some major problems this last update on mine when the kernel update went through.

Turned out that my motherboard needed an update that was causing incompatibilities.

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bluesquid0741b 2 points 4 days ago

The only time I've had breaking, post-update issues was a brief run with Manjaro around 2019.

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spicehoarder 2 points 3 days ago

Last time this happened me was 2013

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popekingjoe 1 point 4 days ago

Me with Manjaro and an Nvidia graphics card.

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Marduk73 1 point 3 days ago

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Naho_Zako 0 points 3 days ago

For cybersec classwork purposes we use Kali in a VM (I use virtualbox specifically), and today my display driver broke for no fucking reason lol. I wanted to fix it in TTY, but my VM had like no storage space for updates or anything. So I tried to use gparted on my VM to give it more space and I just. Could not get the new space past the swap partition and deleted it, but it fucked everything up so I just made a fresh VM. 😅

I daily drive Fedora though and it works like a dream 98% of the time. I had bluetooth hate me about a year or two ago because I didn't do a power cycle after a kernel update (didn't know that was a thing tbh), and I had WiFi crap put on me once only to mysteriously come back 2 reboots later.

Edit: Love that someone just downvoted me without their explanation as to why. Getting mad that people might have an issue one or twice with Linux and then not saying shit to help them is literally why people feel put off from it. Genuinely amazing that some people think like this.

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