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I did a bad thing (self.linuxmint)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why...

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 2 years ago

Because…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

Does my normal user login and password work for that?

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

Yes

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

And at that point, just install Ubuntu Cinnamon.

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

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

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

Timeshift, and try again?

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

Would probably have worked if I could access it without logging in.

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

You can timeshift from the terminal, unless you really hosed it

sudo timeshift --restore

https://dev.to/rahedmir/how-to-use-timeshift-from-command-line-in-linux-1l9b

[–] JoShmoe 1 points 2 years ago

I can do timeshift without logging in?

This is what I was hoping for earlier. Oh well. I appreciate it.