Bricked my mint after purging all gnome related

[nova sigil]

What should i choose?

[fierce field]

try either 'resume normal boot'

or if that gets you nowhere, then choose again from purple here: "Drop to root shell prompt"

then do all of this #1308495927019048961 message

[nova sigil]

Thanks

I'm in class rn, but i left my laptop installing back gnome

Cuz i removed all things that have words "gnome" related that this happened

[nova sigil]

Alright I'm back

[nova sigil]

Uhm yeah, nothing works

I have so many files that are missing

The only way is to reinstall

[low flower]

tip: dont do that again because you'll break your system, again

[nova sigil]

Yeah, I'm trying to stay on xfce from now on

[runic torrent]

make a live usb, back up all your files to a different drive than you use for the installation. Reinstall Mint

I cannot stress enough that a reinstall doesn't preserve any files in your existing installation

back up everything you anticipate keeping

[nova sigil]

So I'm trying to repair it instead of fresh install

I can go into tty

But i cannot go to normal login window

@fierce field

Sorry bothering you 😔

[fierce field]

cd /

ls time*

[nova sigil]

In a bit, i did update and upgrade

Waiting it to finish

Or should i just ^c

[fierce field]

wait

done yet?

[nova sigil]

Not yet

Alright done

[fierce field]

do the things above

[nova sigil]

Right away

[nova sigil]

Done

[fierce field]

it took that long?

[nova sigil]

My wifi didn't send the message 😂

[fierce field]

did it find timeshift?

[nova sigil]

Snapshots

[fierce field]

do mc

does it run?

[nova sigil]

Not found

[fierce field]

sudo apt install mc && mc

[nova sigil]

Done

[fierce field]

in midnite commander, go to root (/)

and into timeshift folder

[nova sigil]

Just / and enter?

[fierce field]

just use the left side pane

idk

does mouse work?

[nova sigil]

Nope but i can enter

[fierce field]

go into whatever, weekly

[nova sigil]

Nothing there

[fierce field]

.. takes u back one level

go in each one

[nova sigil]

But i have one on snapshots

[fierce field]

what date

[nova sigil]

19/05/2025

I think right before i bricked my laptop

[fierce field]

go to "on-demand"

[nova sigil]

On demand is 0

[fierce field]

just to check

[nova sigil]

Nothing there

[fierce field]

ok one sec

in mc, do the thing for accessing prompt

or just exit it

[nova sigil]

Exited

[fierce field]

and do lsblk -o name,type,label,fstype,fsused,fsavail,mountpoint

one line

[fierce field]

ok good u have plenty of room

[nova sigil]

[fierce field]

2. Run the timeshift restore command:

Type sudo timeshift --restore and press Enter. This will list your available snapshots.

3. Select a snapshot:
   You will be prompted to select the snapshot you want to restore. Enter the corresponding number and press Enter.

4. Confirm settings:
   The system will present you with a few options to confirm, such as reinstalling the GRUB2 bootloader. Follow the on-screen instructions.

5. Start the restore:
   Once you've confirmed all the settings, the system will begin restoring the snapshot.

6. Reboot:
   After the restoration is complete, the system will typically reboot automatically.

[nova sigil]

Hmm it says command not found in the 1st step

[fierce field]

check exact spelling

[fierce field]

ffs

whereis timeshift

[nova sigil]

/etc/timeshift

[fierce field]

which timeshift

[nova sigil]

Timeshift not found

[fierce field]

sudo apt install timeshift

then do the list above

[nova sigil]

Alright

[nova sigil]

No snapshots

But i literally do timeshift before

Sadge

Is there a command that can reinstall back missing package?

Forgive my Idiocy, i shouldn't have deleted things

[fierce field]

boot the live usb, and try to run timeshift from GUI

[nova sigil]

I can't do that, i left it at my hometown. Thx for helping tho. It really seems fresh install is the only way

[fierce field]

no

do timeshift --help and show

[nova sigil]

How do i scroll up 😂

[fierce field]

does not matter. it shows example

do this:

timeshift --list --snapshot-device /dev/sda2

[nova sigil]

No snapshots found

Corrupted perhaps

[fierce field]

ok then do sudo apt install --reinstall mint-meta-xfce

[nova sigil]

Done

[fierce field]

let it run

[nova sigil]

Note: I don't mind losing all the data

[nova sigil]

Finished

Reboot?

[fierce field]

u still need a live usb to do a full reinstall

how is it finished so fast?

did it show installing a ton of stuff?

[nova sigil]

Idk

[fierce field]

do whereis lightdm

[fierce field]

and also whereis gdm

[nova sigil]

/usr/share/gdm

[fierce field]

try sudo reboot

[nova sigil]

Rebooting

[fierce field]

if it doesnt work, u need to mask or kill gdm service, and enable lightdm service

[nova sigil]

I have dpkg reconfigure lightdm many times. Ig i need to wait the boot splash logo to finish

[fierce field]

see #1308495927019048961 message

and all what lead to the solve

[runic torrent]

you can buy another $10 usb drive and make a new one

[nova sigil]

I can wait for a week 😂

And then I'll grab my usb at my hometown

[fierce field]

what happened?

[nova sigil]

Nothing I'm still waiting in the boot logo

[fierce field]

just do log in from cli, and do startx if u dont get log-in manager screen

press Esc. and see where it's stuck on

[nova sigil]

Haha, that's impossible

[fierce field]

show it

[nova sigil]

My esc have been broken for 5 years now

[runic torrent]

use caps as escape

[fierce field]

well plug in a diff keyboard and reboot

im out

[nova sigil]

Thank you for your help