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Help, no session?! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just installed a cisco vpn. And after installing some required libraries I got the option to get rid of "unused" libraries. So I did 'sudo apt autoremove' as suggested. After I rebooted I no longer have a either x11 or wayland in the drop down menu. I can no longer login via the GUI.

Running latest Debian.

Where did I go wrong? Any immediate help appreciated 🙏

Edit: The Cisco VPN required me to download libkit2gtk-4.0-dev if that has anything to do with it?

Edit2: Thanks for all the tips and help. Won't happen again 😅

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try to switch to console (ctr alt f2) and run xsession via startx. Or just try to install some meta package from console, like gnome-desktop (like sudo apt install gnome-desktop)

Anyway console (tty) is all what you have now and it should be rnough for restoring the system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Startx just gives me a straight black screen, no cursor or nothing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try reinstalling the DE as someone else has suggested.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got network issues after the reboot too, so can't install anything atm.. 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You clearly have borked your system. Save whatever data you still need and do a fresh install.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I really have.. Kinda crazy to me that it can happen so quickly haha, but yiu live and you learn. Luckily I always have my important stuff in the cloud.