Suddenly this happens:
When I boot my noteback linux mint boots to the login screen. Then after I logged in the mouse cursor is visible centered on a black background. And thats where nothing more happens.
I tried to use startx
but same problem there…stays black.
One thing. I removed wpasupplicant
package before this happened. I'm sure I saw some "cinnamon" removing while the removal processed. Might it be that my cinnamon – which is the GUI isn't it? – has been removed aswell?
I'd like to give you more debug log / informations – but I'm not familiar in doing so. I'm used to work in Terminal for coding but something need to get into GUI for browsing.
EDIT: When trying to switch cinnamon on the login screen (the lambda symbol) this error message appears
Xsession: unable to launch "gnome-session-cinnamon" Xsession…."gnome-session-cinnamon" not found: falling back to default session.
Might it be that there really is an issue with cinnamon after the removal of wpasupplicant
package?
EDIT2: I found a link describing that error message above: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=156684
They tell to sudo apt-get install --reinstall cinnamon
. Funny thing is that I cannot connect to WIFI without GUI. Terminal needs wpasupplicant
package which I recently removed 😉 yeah!
Best Answer
Well,
cinnamon
depends onnetwork-manager
which in turn depends onwpasupplicant
, that's why removing the latter also removed the former. To avoid wiping important stuff from your system the suggested course of action isThat way,
wpasupplicant
wouldn't be removed, since it's needed by other packages, even if you told the system you didn't need it.