Need Little Help

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Running Sparky. fork of Debian Testing Branch. Latest version.

I had to install a dependency, so after that, everything just started to go wonky. Some icons weren't on my desktop panel. Some programs just plain stopped working.

So I restart my system, thinking that might fix it.

But after restart, it took me to the login screen. I never saw this, as I set it to login automatically. I tried to put in my username and password, did flat out nothing. Didn't print out an error that I mistyped it.

I then thought of going into TTY1. All I see is a blinking "_" So I could never log into it.

I DO have timeshift backups, but the thing is, I cant even get into the system. TTY1 or TTY2.

If any of you can help with this, I'd be grateful. I might just need to reinstall. I've been wanting to for ages, but been pushing it off until now.

I looked around the net, there's nothing that I find that can help. :(

Edit: I'm just running Siduction off a USB stick. So I haven't written anything to the M.2 SSD yet. (been wanting to try it out)

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I recently had a MESA driver update go wrong and my system booted into a blank screen. I was able to get to a command-line login prompt with the following:

At the grub menu hit e to edit the boot parameters.

Add a 3 to the end of the line that starts with linux.

Hit F10 to boot with the modified parameters.

Maybe this will help you get to Timeshift (I've never used this).

 

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On 21/06/2024 at 14:59, Brandon H said:

just out of curiosity, what dependency did you have to install?

Oh gosh, I can't remember..

I'm running off a USB stick right now. So I'm not connected to the SSD.

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On 21/06/2024 at 10:05, Mindovermaster said:

Oh gosh, I can't remember..

I'm running off a USB stick right now. So I'm not connected to the SSD.

reason I asked is because I would find it odd for a single dependency to cause such havoc, though since you are saying you've been needing to reinstall anyway, maybe it was just a tipping point for the system.

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On 21/06/2024 at 15:09, Brandon H said:

reason I asked is because I would find it odd for a single dependency to cause such havoc, though since you are saying you've been needing to reinstall anyway, maybe it was just a tipping point for the system.

I just looked at the apt logs. At /var/log/apt/term.log

I found something freaky. I deleted everything having to do with KDE.. I had no knowledge of this.

Well, guess it's time to back everything up. and reinstall.

I've been wanting to go with Siduction for a few months now.

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OK, I'm on Siduction now. Applying updates and moving files around.

I rather like Siduction. It's based off Debian Sid (unstable branch) So it's like the Arch of Debian. Newest and greatest.

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I have found that over the years of installing various Linux distros, it is sometimes better to just reinstall or change distros. I can not tell you the countless number of hours that I have spent trying to resolve dependency issues in older versions of Linux. The result was that I had a distro that just didn't work right so I uninstalled it anyway. I guess that you learn from working through problems, but at some point, it is better to cut your losses.

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On 23/06/2024 at 18:22, Barney T. said:

I have found that over the years of installing various Linux distros, it is sometimes better to just reinstall or change distros. I can not tell you the countless number of hours that I have spent trying to resolve dependency issues in older versions of Linux. The result was that I had a distro that just didn't work right so I uninstalled it anyway. I guess that you learn from working through problems, but at some point, it is better to cut your losses.

Regrettably, yes.. I've always been a Debian boy, but lately, Arch-based distros have opened my eyes.

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I've been toying with the idea of giving Fedora another shot here. I tried it in my initial month of distro-hopping last summer before settling on debian. It was more annoying than I expected and didn't last long. Thinking back I bet most of that came from it using a current Gnome as I hadn't used that before. Now that I've been using Gnome for the last year I'd probably have a better time with Fedora.

I might try debian exprimental before that just to see how that goes. if it blows up I'll have an excuse to wipe and put on Fedora.

I started out with Manjaro and then vanilla Arch but found it was too easy to break them when adding/removing stuff via the AUR.

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