Losing ssh connection during apt upgrade

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:36:47AM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 23:28, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > So now I always make sure that the console screensaver is *disabled permanently*
> > on my headless server ubuntu boxes.
> 
> Are you saying that the screensaver blanked an ssh terminal?  That
> seems unlikely to me, if not actually impossible.
> 
Yes, that rather surprised me too. If my screen has blanked all I have
to do is touch the mousepad or keyboard and everything reappears as it
was before blanking.

> Perhaps you were updating using a directly connected display, not via ssh.
> 

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Chris Green