i tried updating my computer. the update locked up so i had to hard shut down my computer. when i tried to boot up again gdm3 is whacked, not looking right, and when i log in my background doesnt appear, theres no title bars on auto-start up programs, and i cannot start up anything. seems like gnome is half-way there. how to i repair it?
thanks in advance!
gnome is borked
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ChromeMukuro
gnome is borked
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Re: gnome is borked
This is one of the joy of a rolling release...ChromeMukuro wrote:i tried updating my computer. the update locked up so i had to hard shut down my computer. when i tried to boot up again gdm3 is whacked, not looking right, and when i log in my background doesnt appear, theres no title bars on auto-start up programs, and i cannot start up anything. seems like gnome is half-way there. how to i repair it?
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Re: gnome is borked
Was it just the update that locked up? If so, you may want to just kill that process or application (or maybe log out of the desktop) rather than doing a hard-reboot, in future.
To fix it, you said you can't start up anything, so what you could try is to shell out to a terminal (ctrl-alt-f4) or any fn key from 1 to 6 I think and then log in at the prompt, and then type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. That will actually pull in even the level 4 and 5 updates.
If you've installed debdelta, you can use: sudo debdelta-upgrade after the apt-get update, instead. Then reboot, you can use 'sudo shutdown -r now' (no quotes) and hopefully you'll be back to a normal login window and desktop...
To fix it, you said you can't start up anything, so what you could try is to shell out to a terminal (ctrl-alt-f4) or any fn key from 1 to 6 I think and then log in at the prompt, and then type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. That will actually pull in even the level 4 and 5 updates.
If you've installed debdelta, you can use: sudo debdelta-upgrade after the apt-get update, instead. Then reboot, you can use 'sudo shutdown -r now' (no quotes) and hopefully you'll be back to a normal login window and desktop...
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ChromeMukuro
Re: [SOLVED!]gnome is borked
I checked the task manager but there was nothing there to kill. I will try what you suggested when I get home later. Thanks for the help!
UPDATE:
thanks for the help! popped into terminal, reconfigured dpkg, and rebooted, happy and safe back in Mint! the update involved a couple parts of GNOME, so when i killed it everything was screwed on reboot.
UPDATE:
thanks for the help! popped into terminal, reconfigured dpkg, and rebooted, happy and safe back in Mint! the update involved a couple parts of GNOME, so when i killed it everything was screwed on reboot.