[Solved] Cin Update then no login?

[PcMojo]

I was really hoping that others were having problems, as well, and that a solution had been found. I'm not sure what happened, but after updates that included Cinnamon and Cinnamon-common, I rebooted. My grub menu, usually customized, was a little different and after selecting the default entry it asks for name and pw then the screen turns black and gui never returns. If I try the recover menu entry, regardless of which entry I choose, it always tries to "clean" my drive (fsck ?). I am now running off my live CD. Is there any way to get a command line and un-update this and go back to where it was?

[PcMojo]

Someone on IRC suggested that I look under /var/log/apt and this is what I have:

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Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 48234532 -o Synaptic::closeZvt=true --progress-str Please wait, this can take some time --finish-str Update is complete --set-selections-file /tmp/tmpeJYBiQ
Upgrade: cinnamon:i386 (1.8.2-20130508044008-precise, 1.8.2-20130512044008-precise), gir1.2-muffin-3.0:i386 (1.8.0-20130505194911-precise, 1.8.1-20130512024008-precise), nemo:i386 (1.8.0-20130505195003-precise, 1.8.1-20130512030011-precise), muffin-common:i386 (1.8.0-20130505194911-precise, 1.8.1-20130512024008-precise), libmuffin0:i386 (1.8.0-20130505194911-precise, 1.8.1-20130512024008-precise), cinnamon-common:i386 (1.8.2-20130508044008-precise, 1.8.2-20130512044008-precise), libnemo-extension1:i386 (1.8.0-20130505195003-precise, 1.8.1-20130512030011-precise), mdm:i386 (1.0.8+maya, 1.2.0-20130512065007-precise), nemo-data:i386 (1.8.0-20130505195003-precise, 1.8.1-20130512030011-precise)
End-Date: 2013-05-13  07:40:33

Start-Date: 2013-05-13 07:39:40

Any ideas as to why this would jack up my install? Nobody else on the forums seem to be complaining about this issue. If it was a faulty upgrade shouldn't there be many more issues reported on the forums? any ideas?

[PcMojo]

I was able to fix this issue and it ended up being pretty simple. I worked for a day logging on with a live cd and hacking into my encrypted home to save all the files I could, as I was expecting a re-install. By this time I wasn't sure if it was a Cinnamon issue or one of the other packages that caused the issues. It dawned on me ( ) to try logging in under a different gui and Gnome classic worked just fine. I did a apt-get update, upgrade, and dist-upgrade then rebooted. I'm back in Cinnamon now and don't see any issues. All I can think of is something in one of the packages messed up my system and getting back into it a couple of days later one of the newer updates fixed it.