an hour ago I had a working gnome-desktop on my debian system (thinkpad x121e).
Then I installed compiz that crashed.
After a reboot the gnome-desktop no longer started.
Then I did some upgrades with aptitude, all gnome-packages seem to be there, but it is still not working.
On startup I get a login-dialog, when I login there is no desktop, only some window-manager running that allows me to start a terminal.
When I run "gnome-session" I get the error message "failed to load session "gnome".
So how do I get back to a working desktop?
I have tried "tasksel install gnome-desktop –new-install" but that just displays a progress window that after half an hour still shows 0%.
Can someone help me please?
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Best Answer
Try doing this in terminal
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