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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

…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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does my normal user login and password work for that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

And at that point, just install Ubuntu Cinnamon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I can do timeshift without logging in?

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