What is it with updates?

[Scorpa54]

I will ask you a few questions to try to narrow down why you may be having this problem .

2-whow did you install your Nvidia driver and what model is your nvidia hardware.

I prefer to do my updates on the command line as ,as you have discovered you get more feedback and suggestions for a fix.

I do

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get  dist-upgrade

VINNY

I installed my Asus GeForce GTX1060 6GB with cli:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

I am wondering if it would be helpful to do a re-install of Nvidia after an update. It seems that things work well (during the re-install) when I install Nvidia after doing updates.
Thank you kindly

[vinnywright]

I will ask you a few questions to try to narrow down why you may be having this problem .

1- I will assume you are doing your updates with Discover ,yes/no , I personally do not, and the "lock" problem I think you are describing is usually caused by the update's not completing properly and leaves you having to manually remove the "lock" file .
2-whow did you install your Nvidia driver and what model is your nvidia hardware.

I prefer to do my updates on the command line as ,as you have discovered you get more feedback and suggestions for a fix.

I do

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get  dist-upgrade

VINNY

[Scorpa54]

I'm running along smoothly, see updates available and install them, then the next morning when I go to boot up I can't get in and have to do a complete install. My system freezes right after the Kubuntu logo and sits there with a cursor line flashing in the upper left corner of a black screen. No reboots cure this, nothing I seem to be able to do with grub tools fixes this, just re-install.
The other thing I have noticed is that after an update is that Discover is unable to get a lock when trying to download software, apt install also does not work, but at least it tells you how to configure the breakage.
I am pretty certain that the freeze is caused by a clash with Nvidia but is there a fix so that I am not re-installing every two days?
Thank you kindly,