I dont understand what may have caused it. I tried apt --fix-broken but didnt work and i dont remember doing anything that could have caused it, once i rebooted and i got this. How can i troubleshoot it or see the error log? This only happens for my user
Are you Nvidia user?
Press alt+ctrl+F6 (or lower) to get into CLI.
I use intel and amd
Do you recall any kernel updates?
No i dont, i was just customizing my desktop and at somepoint i did a reboot and i got this. Maybe i accident mv something or rm something that may resulted this i dont remember
A bit more info is needed. Do you recall the steps/following a guide etc.
Yes i asked chatgpt and told me to do apt --fix-broken which didnt help
I also did `apt -f install from reddit which didnt also help. When i made a new user i didn't have this issue.. Also reverting from a backup state from timeshift didnt work.
Did you had broken packages? Implying you asked the chatgpt. Log into CLI (as described in my first post).
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt --fix-broken
If you can take a picture of the output.
How? Im using amd and intel and the key shortcut didnt work, when do i press the key shortcut?
At the login screen, press alt+ctrl+F6 (or F5 or lower), at the same time.
Ok i opened cli, whats next?
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt --fix-broken
Post the output of it.
I get 0 upgraded 0 newly installed 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded
Then i get
Command line option 'f' from fix broken is not understood in combination with other options
The bad thing is that gnome doesn't tell you what went wrong other besides that stupid ops-image. I'm on KDE, so we need someone with Gnome to chip in.
I'm wondering, you could flush the local config files to see if a reset of the desktop would help. No guarantee as I don't know what's wrong with your system. Your changes to the desktop would reset to default, so it's up to you.
Note: Use with caution when it's done it can't be undone.
cd
rm -rf ~/.config
sudo reboot
What were you aiming to do here?
I was just configuring wine, i chaged the icon of settings app and some other with edit menu. This happened to me again this is the second time. In the last restart as i can recall it was fine
I also clearly remember that before this happened i had the icons in the home directory and this happened... How can i check for gnome errors?
Ok by running journalctl i got Failed to start application launched by gnome-session-binary
Defined by systemmd
A start job for unit UNIT has failed
Unrecoverable failture in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
I think this may happen because of amdgpu how do i troubleshoot
You could try it with
sudo apt reinstall zorin-os-desktop
or
sudo apt reinstall gnome-shell
Worst Case would be a fresh Installation.
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Is Zorin OS the only system or are you dual-booting?