Help, no session?!

Mr. Forager@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 67 points –

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 😅

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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.

Startx just gives me a straight black screen, no cursor or nothing.

Try reinstalling the DE as someone else has suggested.

Got network issues after the reboot too, so can't install anything atm.. 😅

You clearly have borked your system. Save whatever data you still need and do a fresh install.

Yeah I really have.. Kinda crazy to me that it can happen so quickly haha, but yiu live and you learn. Luckily I always have my important stuff in the cloud.