Switching to Greek keyboard layout leads to crash. Can't log in anymore without crashing

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#1

I'm using Zorin. Only switching to the Greek layout causes this problem. Before, it would crash and let me log in again without the Greek layout being enabled. Now I get "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." every time I log in. Switching the keyboard layout in the log in screen doesn't matter because it doesn't affect what happens past the log in screen.

I'm looking at /etc/default/keyboard currently using recovery mode. I tried changing "XKBLAYOUT=us,us,gr" to "XKBLAYOUT=us,us", but that didn't work.

#2

From the recovery prompt, can you try:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install ibus-m17n ibus-mozc mozc-utils-gui

im-config -n ibus

Exit from recovery menu and proceed to try to boot normally.
If you are able to boot and log in, test switching to Greek layout...

#3

I was able to connect to the internet in the recovery mode and follow these commands. It didn't change anything. I also reverted the changes I made to the keyboard file since it didn't help.

I unsuccessfully tried the following commands I found online in an attempt to remove keyboard layouts via the terminal so gnome doesn't default to it while logging in.
setxkbmap us
setxkbmap -layout "us"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us')]"
gsettings set org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts "['us']"

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#4

Fascinating...
Have you tried removing the home .config directory?
Or reinstalling the desktop?

sudo apt install --reinstall zorin-os-desktop

This is turning into a stumper...

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#5

Deleting the .config directory worked! Thanks for helping. I was recommended saving the machine state by someone else. I'll learn how to do that.

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#6

I think the problem was I downloaded a custom keyboard layout from GitHub that was Dvorak but switched to qwerty when the mod keys was pressed. I can't find it again now.

#7

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