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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JoShmoe to c/[email protected]
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…or two. I forcibly installed snap on my mint os. I also tried to manually remove flatpaks.

Not sure if snap affected this, but when I log in I get some error message saying : unable to launch “cinnamon-session-cinnamon” X session - - - “cinnamon-session-cinnamon” not found; falling back to default session.

Then it goes to a blank screen.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Log in to a tty then reinstall what was removed :)

[–] JoShmoe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does my normal user login and password work for that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried it. It just kept telling me the login andor password were wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then there's something wrong. If you have the root password log in with it then run the command passwd user in which user is your username.

It will reset your password.

If you don't have root access then I'm afraid you'll have to reinstall.

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

And at that point, just install Ubuntu Cinnamon.

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 1 year ago

One thing that might have caused confusion is that the login name or whatever it’s technically term is wasn’t the same for the user.

When reinstalling, I noticed my name and login didn’t have to match. I had differentiated the two when I first installed the os. I had no idea doing that would cause such confusion, why display one thing for the login screen but use another thing for the command line?

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

Weird. It works for me. Without more info I have no idea what's wrong

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 1 year ago

I got lazy and wound up reinstalling the os. Thanks anyways.