Ubuntu 24.04 white screen of death

· rrees's blog


I decided to try to upgrade yesterday without thinking too much about who far along we with maturity cycles of the new LTS release.

I was horrified to have the white screen of death when I rebooted, something that hasn't happened in a long time.

Fortunately the console terminal (Ctrl-Fn-Alt-F2) was still working and the following commands sorted me out and resumed the upgrade and got me working again.

  1. sudo apt -f install
  2. sudo apt upgrade

I'm writing this on 24.04 but the irony is that I wasn't really that bothered by the features of the new update and probably would have been fine on the previous version which I'd only just upgraded to.