Solved Help booting mint cinnamon

[EyeXlin]

Hi guys

I have an issue booting linux after trying to fix a separate issue & i must have uninstall some dependency files.



Lenovo Ideapad laptop
Linux mint cinnamon 22
No ethernet wifi only

Error I'm getting is

unable to launch "cinnamon-session-cinnamon" X session --- "cinnamon-session-cinnamon" not found; falling back to default session.

: From here i click ok
I then get a login screen with my user name already loaded asking for password (my phone at this point tells my the laptop is connected to wifi)
: i input password then it boots back to the 1st error screen

This loop is continuous if i keep pressing ok & inputting password

tried
: booting into GNU GRUB v 2.12
: 2 options ... linux mint 22 cinnamon or advanced options for linux bla bla
; i choose advanced

I then get a screen with 6 onions

Linux mint 22 cinnamon, with linux 6.8.0-60-generic

Linux mint 22 cinnamon, with linux 6.8.0-60-generic (recovery mode)

And the other 4 the same except 60.8.0-48 & 38-generic
I don't know why so many or what they are.

: so i choose
Linux mint 22 cinnamon, with linux 6.8.0-60-generic (recovery mode)

Now I'm at recovery menu (file system state: read only

I do not know what im doing here, so i tried various options by myself & trying to follow threads here with the same problem but nothing seems to work.

I tried some of the sudo apt-get install xxxx or xxxx but still nothing seems to work.

When on this recovery screen my phone shows no device connected (but does on earlier original error screen) and if im not mistaken i need to be connect to the www to download possible missing files right?

I tried to connect via usb-tethering but phone shows no device connected (tried a quality brand new lead)

If anyone could hepl me with stuf to try step by step that would be great.

I installed Linux on the laptop around a year ago and haven't had any real issues.
I'm a bit techy & can follow clear instructions.

If I can't get it online can i download stuff onto a USB drive then fix from there?
Or make a new bootable drive with linux mint on it & somehow fix things from there?

Thx

 

[EyeXlin]

Timeshift

I forgot to add that i disabled timeshift due to limited space but im sure there's 1 backup on the lappy but i don't know how to launch it.

 

[KGIII]

Timeshift

I forgot to add that i disabled timeshift due to limited space but im sure there's 1 backup on the lappy but i don't know how to launch it.

You can live-boot, using the same medium you used to install (usually a USB thumbdrive), and launch Timeshift from there. You'll need to point it at the location of said backup for restoration purposes.

If posssible in the future, you can set Timeshift to do backups to external storage media. There are also other backup alternatives. I, for one, ignore most of them. That's because I am able to fix anything that breaks. But, I still backup my home directory, for easy restoration in the event of a failure beyond my ability to repair. Point being, backups are a personal choice and that you should preserve what matters to you - but also that backups are pretty much essential.

It's also important to remember that an untested backup is not a backup.

 

[kc1di]

Hello @EyeXlin Welcome to the Linux.org forum
this page is a bit old but sound very similar to your problem follow the instruction in the answer and see if it works for you.

Unable to launch "cinnamon-session-cinnamon"

I just tried to boot Linux (I am using Mint), I got the following error: : unable to launch "cinnamon-session-cinnamon" X session --- "cinnamon-session-cinnamon" not found; fall...

superuser.com

 

[EyeXlin]

You can live-boot, using the same medium you used to install (usually a USB thumbdrive), and launch Timeshift from there. You'll need to point it at the location of said backup for restoration purposes.

If posssible in the future, you can set Timeshift to do backups to external storage media. There are also other backup alternatives. I, for one, ignore most of them. That's because I am able to fix anything that breaks. But, I still backup my home directory, for easy restoration in the event of a failure beyond my ability to repair. Point being, backups are a personal choice and that you should preserve what matters to you - but also that backups are pretty much essential.

It's also important to remember that an untested backup is not a backup.

It was a while ago & can't find the USB drive i made back then so ill dowmload & make one tomorrow after getting more data (i have small data remaining right now)

Many thx

In the meantime ill read further for other fixes before i quuit for the night

 

[EyeXlin]

Hello @EyeXlin Welcome to the Linux.org forum
this page is a bit old but sound very similar to your problem follow the instruction in the answer and see if it works for you.

Hi

Thx for the welcome

I read & tried this thread before posting this thread. It failed at the 1st step

Press CTRL-ALT-F1 to change to text mode and login with your user.

C A F1 2 or others did nothing. Id reboot n try them again but still nothing.

So i never get to log in, i forgot to mention that before.
Any suggestions?

 

[KGIII]

Try CTRL + ALT + F3.

Login and let me know if that works.

Actually... If it does, try startx after logging in.

 

[osprey]

Hi

Thx for the welcome

I read & tried this thread before posting this thread. It failed at the 1st step

Press CTRL-ALT-F1 to change to text mode and login with your user.

C A F1 2 or others did nothing. Id reboot n try them again but still nothing.

So i never get to log in, i forgot to mention that before.
Any suggestions?

If you are unable to get the GUI up, unable to get mobile phone tethering up and cannot get anywhere with the recovery mode, then one could try to boot the machine into text mode and use NetworkManager's command line program: nmcli, to get the network running. Then you could download whatever is needed, in particular the missing cinnamon-session app mentioned in post #1.

There are several hurdles to this approach: you would need to avail yourself of the nmcli commands that will get your wifi up, if it doesn't happen automatically; and you would need to use the grub editing facility to enable the machine to boot to a text prompt where you could log in, become root and do what needs to be done.

As mentioned in post #6, the ctrl+alt+F1-F#, is not working so that route appears to be unavailable.

To boot to a text prompt one can follow the instructions here: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/boot-linux-command-line-mode.

With NetworkManager, it may configure the wifi automatically, so one can check that. If it's not configured automatically, then one would need to use the nmcli commands of which there are many examples online. The driver and firmware relevant for the wifi need to be in place for that to work, otherwise, those will need to be downloaded and installed on the laptop.

One can check what the kernel thinks the wifi is and whether it's loaded a relevant driver, if it's on pci bus rather than usb, with the command:

lspci -nnk |grep -i net -A3

 

[bob466]

Before you try to"fix" anything...it's a good idea to have a backup..be it Timeshift of Foxclone.

I've not had this problem but this may be of help...

 

[EyeXlin]

Try CTRL + ALT + F3.

Login and let me know if that works.

Actually... If it does, try startx after logging in.

Thx for tip

I think tired f1 2 3 4 befire but all was no go

 

[EyeXlin]

If you are unable to get the GUI up, unable to get mobile phone tethering up and cannot get anywhere with the recovery mode, then one could try to boot the machine into text mode and use NetworkManager's command line program: nmcli, to get the network running. Then you could download whatever is needed, in particular the missing cinnamon-session app mentioned in post #1.

There are several hurdles to this approach: you would need to avail yourself of the nmcli commands that will get your wifi up, if it doesn't happen automatically; and you would need to use the grub editing facility to enable the machine to boot to a text prompt where you could log in, become root and do what needs to be done.

As mentioned in post #6, the ctrl+alt+F1-F#, is not working so that route appears to be unavailable.

To boot to a text prompt one can follow the instructions here: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/boot-linux-command-line-mode.

With NetworkManager, it may configure the wifi automatically, so one can check that. If it's not configured automatically, then one would need to use the nmcli commands of which there are many examples online. The driver and firmware relevant for the wifi need to be in place for that to work, otherwise, those will need to be downloaded and installed on the laptop.

One can check what the kernel thinks the wifi is and whether it's loaded a relevant driver, if it's on pci bus rather than usb, with the command:

lspci -nnk |grep -i net -A3

Hi

Many thx for taking the time to present all that info.

BTH i think i could learn to understand all that but would take me a while (days or wks ... or more lol) infact im gonna try make a point of learning a bit more about how linux works & how to fix it, but just little by little. I said this last yr but didnt, now is the time.

 

[EyeXlin]

Before you try to"fix" anything...it's a good idea to have a backup..be it Timeshift of Foxclone. View attachment 27296
I've not had this problem but this may be of help...

View attachment 27297

Thx

I'd already saw this vid & tried before thread, again the problem was logging in, just wouldn't work

 

[EyeXlin]

You can live-boot, using the same medium you used to install (usually a USB thumbdrive), and launch Timeshift from there. You'll need to point it at the location of said backup for restoration purposes.

If posssible in the future, you can set Timeshift to do backups to external storage media. There are also other backup alternatives. I, for one, ignore most of them. That's because I am able to fix anything that breaks. But, I still backup my home directory, for easy restoration in the event of a failure beyond my ability to repair. Point being, backups are a personal choice and that you should preserve what matters to you - but also that backups are pretty much essential.

It's also important to remember that an untested backup is not a backup.

So i redownloaded mint & made new USB boot drive, loaded a backup from timeshift & its all good now, thx

Except i have a new problem now.

Chrome browser no longer boots, it tries then the logo disappears.
Id upgraded it after the timeshift date so not surprised it doesn't load, but when i remove it then reinstall it still doesn't work.

Ill mark thread as solved as original problem is fixed now.


Many thx to all who gave info to help