[SOLVED] Unable to launch Cinnamon session - not found, falling back to default session

[Ohiitsmeizz]

Hello, I have quite a problem.
I am a new mint user. my sound stopped working and I was looking for fixes online. I tried various things like reinstalling pulseaudio, updating kernels, all things I found in forums. The last thing I tried was purge pulseaudio in the terminal, and now I get the above message. If I press OK, the screen goes black and I can only see my cursor. I can't bring up the terminal with alt ctrl f1, so I have no idea of what to do. Any help, please?
Thanks

[sleeper12]

You can try Lord Boltars's solution here, 2nd post down:
viewtopic.php?t=273579

If not that, you may need to reinstall Mint. See what others have to say.

[Ohiitsmeizz]

Hi yep, that's one of the ones I had seen but I can't bring up the terminal with ctrl alt f1 so it's a no go, unfortunately. Any other ideas?

[Cosmo.]

Boot the live system, which you had used to install Mint. Open in the menu Timeshift and restore a snapshot. You need to point to the partition, where the snapshots are stored.

[Ohiitsmeizz]

That worked, sound is fixed too. Thanks so much!

[sleeper12]

Edit your first post & add 'Solved' to the Subject line.

[Ohiitsmeizz]

4sho

[Luke]

Dear fellow Linux Mint users,

with regards to Lord Boltar's solution: It saved me so much time and trouble that I just registered to say thank you, and add a little detail to give something back. So thank you, @Lord Boltar (can we do user mentions in this forum?).

The little detail that might be helpful for others reading his post (second post at viewtopic.php?t=273579 ): You can do a reboot simply by typing "reboot" (or "shutdown -h now").

Also, if you are running non-English systems, your desktop might end up empty after the procedure. In that case, check your home directory for your non-English desktop folder (e.g., "Schreibtisch" as the German word for desktop), then move the files to ~/Desktop (or link Desktop to your other desktop folder). There probably are more elegant solutions, however, this seems to fix the issue.

[Moem]

can we do user mentions in this forum?

No, that doesn't really do anything here.