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PC keeps crashing when I'm trying to fix dpkg by running dpkg --configure -a It crashed and went to basic video so I tried to downgrade the nvidia driver to 460 (495 has been working fine, didn't update anything else) but apt is locked and everytime I try to fix it it crashes; black screen. I've tried from the recovery console as root, same thing. RTX 2060 Ubuntu 20.04.3

There isn't anything in the logs that I can see. Temperatures seem fine.

This is what is says on the screen when it crashes:

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-91-generic
INFO:Enable nvidia
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
Removing old nvidia-495.46 DKMS files...



Deleting module version: 495.46
completely from the DKMS tree.




Done.
Loading new nvidia-495.46 DKMS files...
Building for 5.4.0-91-generic 5.4.0-92-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.4.0-91-generic

Thanks in advance.

Bovine
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Stu
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Saw this answer and thought it migth be worth a go reinstalling gcc.

I booted to live cd and chroot'd in and killed apt and removed the apt locks bc it was still telling me to fix dpkg.

sudo apt-get install gcc said that it was installed but now set to manual. ran sudo dpkg --configure -a again and, though all the cpu's went to 100 for a worrying amount of time it completed successfully and is now working fine.

**** edit ****

The problem came back and in the end following this answer removing duplicate drivers seemed to do the trick.

Stu
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