🩷Escaping the "Pink Screen of Death"

Sometimes when updating the apps with the Node Auto-installer, or even manually, you will receive what I call the "Pink Screen of Death".

This is just a screen that asks you which services you want to restart, and usually clicking ENTER should suffice to move on. The issue isâ€Ļ sometimes it doesn't work, and you get stuck here.

To solve this issue, you may try these steps:

  1. Have you already tried pressing ENTER or ESC? If yes, then move on.

  2. Have already tried pressing TAB to navigate to <Cancel> and confirm with ENTER? If yes, then move on.

  3. Log in to your server via another terminal window and reboot: sudo reboot

  4. Run again the app update manually: sudo apt -q update

  5. Install some extra apps: sudo apt-get install git wget tmux tar -y

  6. If everything went smoothly up to here, you can either run again the Node Auto-installerscript (step 3), or you can proceed with the Node step by step installationwhere you left off.

This process almost always solved the issue for me, I really hope you don't get stuck in the pink forever ;-)


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