LMDE 5 black desktop with icons after reboot

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LMDE 5 black desktop with icons after reboot

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Hello all! so I've been running LMDE on this laptop for about a year now with little issue. however, now for seemingly no reason I did a restart, it gave an initramfs prompt. I did "the usual" to fsck the disk, then exit, and this is where the headache starts.

I was greeted to my desktop image background flashing up for a couple seconds before disappearing, and then it gave me a desktop that looked like this:

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I then tried to reboot in recovery mode, which gave me an error about the root account being locked, which I then used this post to give it a password:

viewtopic.php?t=294903

however, that ultimately ended up being a red herring as the issue was not resolved and seemingly did nothing. I also found this post:

viewtopic.php?t=244675

which had said to try "cinnamon --replace" which I did, but it gave me an inconsistency error I've never seen before.

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any help would be appreciated!
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Re: LMDE 5 black desktop with icons after reboot

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Sorry to bump, but I still need help
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Re: LMDE 5 black desktop with icons after reboot

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IF you made a Timeshift backup recently, boot the PC with a LMDE5 Live Install USB flash drive (the one you installed LMDE5 with).
Then run Timeshift and restore a recent backup.
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