Escaping the "Pink Screen of Death"
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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 is⦠sometimes it doesn't work, and you get stuck here.
To solve this issue, you may try these steps:
Have you already tried pressing ENTER or ESC? If yes, then move on.
Have already tried pressing TAB to navigate to <Cancel> and confirm with ENTER? If yes, then move on.
Log in to your server via another terminal window and reboot: sudo reboot
Run again the app update manually: sudo apt -q update
Install some extra apps: sudo apt-get install git wget tmux tar -y
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 ;-)