Blank desktop following latest software upgrad

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I can connect by Sync, but the desktop is grayed out with only the mouse cursor showing. Is there a CLI fix? I rebooted and CPU utilizaition is low. I did this through the dash, checking from the ssh shell, I see



olly@sparky:~$ sudo apt update

[sudo] password for olly:
Get:1 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/arm64  InRelease [1,477 B]
Hit:2 https://downloads.1password.com/linux/debian/amd64 stable InRelease
Hit:3 https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/ubuntu/noble/arm64 noble InRelease
Hit:5 https://workbench.download.nvidia.com/stable/linux/debian default InRelease
Hit:6 
  InRelease
Hit:7 https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/ubuntu/noble/arm64 noble-updates InRelease
Hit:8 
  InRelease
Hit:9 https://repo.download.nvidia.com/spark/ubuntu/arm64 noble-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:10 
 noble InRelease
Hit:11 
 noble-updates InRelease
Hit:12 
 noble-apps-security InRelease
Hit:13 
 noble-backports InRelease
Hit:14 
 noble-apps-updates InRelease
Hit:15 
 noble-security InRelease
Hit:16 https://snapshot.ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-nvidia/nvidia-desktop-edge/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:17 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu noble-infra-security InRelease
Hit:18 https://snapshot.ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-nvidia/vulkan-packages-nv-desktop/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:19 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu noble-infra-updates InRelease
Fetched 1,477 B in 2s (853 B/s)
Reading package listsā€¦ Done
Building dependency treeā€¦ Done
Reading state informationā€¦ Done
All packages are up to date.
olly@sparky:~$

And itā€™s hit16 that seems suspect.

2

Did you use the dashboard to do software upgrade?
Did the SW upgrade finish successfully?
If somehow not finished, you can continue the upgrade with these commands
ā€œsudo apt updateā€
ā€œsudo apt dist-upgradeā€

3

I did use the dash (having learned my lesson the hard way). As far as I could tell it finished successfully. Iā€™ve run the apt commands and after a reboot through the ssh shell, Iā€™m back to the grayed out screen.

4

I went ahead an used the recovery usb stick.