Black Screen After Applying All Updates in 21.1

[rawd]

Hello, I experienced the Black Screen after applying all updates in 21.1. I did an erase and fresh install to get back working order.
I've read other articles in the forum, and it seems to be a problem with one or a combination of the following:
1) the kernel update
2) the video driver getting changed during updates
3) the renderer getting changed during updates
I wasn't clear what the fix turned out to be on the other posts?

My question is which of the three should I avoid when selecting updates to apply,
to avoid the black screen?
Thank you,
=R=

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My question is which of the three should I avoid when selecting updates to apply,
to avoid the black screen?

Welcome to the forum, rawd.

There are a multitude of possibilities in addition to the ones you listed and it is not possible for anyone to answer that question until you provide information about your hardware.

Please open the System Reports app and click the System Information tab on the left. Your computer's information should come up in the right pane. Then click the Copy button in the lower right and paste the results into a reply window here so we can see how Linux Mint views your hardware.

[rawd]

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-56-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.5
    tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D630 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 8 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0KU184 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A18 date: 12/06/2011
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M705 serial: <filter> charge: 95% status: Discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech K350 serial: <filter>
    charge: 70% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T7250 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom rev: D cache:
    L1: 128 KiB L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1822 high: 1837 min/max: 800/2001 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1837 2: 1808
    bogomips: 7979
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell Latitude D630 driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: VGA-1 off: LVDS-1 empty: DVI-D-1,SVIDEO-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:2a02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: LG (GoldStar) FULL HD res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102 diag: 551mm (21.7")
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Dell Latitude D630 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:284b
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-56-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express vendor: Dell driver: tg3
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1673
  IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network driver: iwl3945 v: in-tree:s pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4222
  IF: wlp12s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 20.41 GiB (27.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Fujitsu model: MHZ2080BJ FFS G2 size: 74.53 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 68.39 GiB used: 20.4 GiB (29.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 249.3 MiB (12.2%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2927
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2141
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 205 Uptime: 1h 54m Memory: 1.92 GiB used: 1.58 GiB (82.5%) Init: systemd v: 249
  runlevel: 5 target: graphical.target Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.6.5
  inxi: 3.3.13

Thank you!

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Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D630 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 8 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0KU184 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A18 date: 12/06/2011

I did a search on the forum for D630 and there are quite a few people currently running LM21.1 on them. The issues seem to be mainly with wifi, but those machines had Broadcom and yours has Intel. I didn't find anyone having graphics issues (not even those with Nvidia GPUs in theirs) so I am not sure what might be the issue on your system. Intel graphics very rarely have issues.

When you booted to the black screen, did you have the laptop screen turned off and were just using the external monitor? I suggest you make sure both screens are being used while troubleshooting because the issue might relate to the connection for the external monitor. I have seen some issues with the older hardware and external monitors in LM21 versions.

In cases like this, the recommendation is to take a Timeshift snapshot and then installing the updates in small groups. As long as the updates are successful, you can either keep track of what you are updating or periodically take additional snapshots until you find which update might be the issue.

However, I would strongly recommend you either find more memory for the laptop or switch to using MATE or Xfce. This is not enough memory to be running an LM21 version of Cinnamon.
Info:
Processes: 205 Uptime: 1h 54m Memory: 1.92 GiB used: 1.58 GiB (82.5%) Init: systemd v: 249
runlevel: 5 target: graphical.target Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.6.5
inxi: 3.3.13

You could try increasing the swapfile size to see if that will help, but I think you will still likely to have performance issues. How to Increase Swap Size on Ubuntu Linux

Web browsers are getting only more and more hungry in how much memory and processing power they use and Cinnamon is the "heaviest" desktop.

[rawd]

Hi, Thank you very much for the quick replay.

Glad to hear the Dell D630 users aren't experiencing very many issues. My WiFi is working

I do have the laptop in a docking station connected to an external monitor. So might be the problem?
I'll check into to the external monitor causing Black Screen issue. I did a print screen of the list of updates offered in update manager. I plan to apply them one at a time, and reboot after each one. All though, time consuming it'll let me know which one if any cause the Black Screen issue.

Yeah, I know you right I need to add more Ram Memory, So, I'll get some ordered.

Appreciate you help!

=R=