I just installed a cisco vpn. And after installing some required libraries I got the option to get rid of “unused” libraries. So I did ‘sudo apt autoremove’ as suggested. After I rebooted I no longer have a either x11 or wayland in the drop down menu. I can no longer login via the GUI.

Running latest Debian.

Where did I go wrong? Any immediate help appreciated 🙏

Edit: The Cisco VPN required me to download libkit2gtk-4.0-dev if that has anything to do with it?

Edit2: Thanks for all the tips and help. Won’t happen again 😅

  • SemEnglish
    18•9 months ago

    Try to switch to console (ctr alt f2) and run xsession via startx. Or just try to install some meta package from console, like gnome-desktop (like sudo apt install gnome-desktop)

    Anyway console (tty) is all what you have now and it should be rnough for restoring the system.

    • LunchOP
      7•9 months ago

      Startx just gives me a straight black screen, no cursor or nothing.

        • LunchOP
          3•9 months ago

          Got network issues after the reboot too, so can’t install anything atm… 😅

          • @hottari@lemmy.ml
            4•9 months ago

            You clearly have borked your system. Save whatever data you still need and do a fresh install.

            • LunchOP
              2•9 months ago

              Yeah I really have… Kinda crazy to me that it can happen so quickly haha, but yiu live and you learn. Luckily I always have my important stuff in the cloud.