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I have a fresh install of 22.04 on an old Dell laptop. On the initial boot after install, the display manager came up and I logged in. I added the synaptic package manager using apt and then a few applications using synaptic and then did all the package upgrades that are necessary after an install. Then I shut down.

On startup the next day, the boot sequence resulted in a black screen and a flashing cursor at the top left. The system was up, though, because I could log in using ctrl-alt-F2, and I could also log in remotely using ssh. I then shut down and rebooted. Grub gave me the option of special login (I forget the precise wording) to "Ubuntu with Linux 5.15.0-56-generic" and also "Ubuntu with Linux 5.15.0-43" and also in recovery mode.

Choosing 5.15.0-43 (NOT recovery mode) resulted in a normal display and I could log in and use the computer normally. Repeating the boot but choosing 5.15-0-56 left me with a black screen and blinking cursor.

I assume that the -56 kernel was upgraded from -43, which must have been the kernel on initial boot.

What setting can I change to make the -56 (and, presumably future) kernel work properly? Any ideas about what is happening?

user125
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The standard solution to a bad kernel upgrade is as follows.

  1. Boot to a known working kernel (Linux 5.15.0-43).

  2. Uninstall the non-working kernel (Linux 5.15.0-56-generic).

  3. Prevent the latest remaining working kernel version from being upgraded by following the instructions in How to prevent updating of a specific package?.

After a month you can remove the hold on the Linux kernel package and upgrade the Linux kernel again to a later version than 5.15.0-56 to test if upgrading to a later kernel version solved the problem with 5.15.0-56.

karel
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