I just installed a cisco vpn. And after installing some required libraries I got the option to get rid of “unused” libraries. So I did ‘sudo apt autoremove’ as suggested. After I rebooted I no longer have a either x11 or wayland in the drop down menu. I can no longer login via the GUI.

Running latest Debian.

Where did I go wrong? Any immediate help appreciated 🙏

Edit: The Cisco VPN required me to download libkit2gtk-4.0-dev if that has anything to do with it?

Edit2: Thanks for all the tips and help. Won’t happen again 😅

  • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Try to switch to console (ctr alt f2) and run xsession via startx. Or just try to install some meta package from console, like gnome-desktop (like sudo apt install gnome-desktop)

    Anyway console (tty) is all what you have now and it should be rnough for restoring the system.

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    See if you can just re-install a desktop environment. Try sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome (or maybe cinnamon-desktop-environment, whichever you prefer). Then reboot, see if that does anything.

  • Minty95@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Though to late to help you, when you get it working again, install Timeshift, so that instead of faffing around to try and suss out what went wrong, you just start timeshift – restore from the console and a couple of minutes later you’ll have your working setup back. It’s saved my bacon quite a few times in the last couple of years, especially when you can’t login to your DE.