Unable to boot after removing libreoffice-gtk3

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Hi there,
after I removed libreoffice-gtk3, ZorinOS won't boot anymore. After unlocking the encrypted drive (LVM) successfully, the zorin logo appears, then disappears and this screen is seen. Does anyone know the problem and how to fix it?

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Thanks in advance!

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If you have access to a command prompt after that screen, you can try running:

sudo apt install zorin-os-desktop

Once it's done installing that, restart by typing reboot.

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First: Thank you for helping me, I really appreciate it!

I already tried that but unfortunately, I'm not able to connect to the internet via wifi. I need to be connected with an ethernet cable which I will try tomorrow night. I'll be back when I tried it.

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No internet, either? That's a spectacular way to blow up :exploding_head:

Do you recall if libreoffice-gtk3 the exact name of the package? I'll try to look it up, but I suspect it has tight dependencies with desktop components.

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Well, I'm only able to get a shell in recovery mode. That's probably the reason why it doesn't connect to wifi.

That's the last command I did before I rebooted and got the described issue (sorry, it's in German).

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It basically says that the package "libreoffice-gtk3" got removed.

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I just did a test:

sudo apt remove libreoffice-gtk3                                                               ─╯
[sudo] password for mech-1:     
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libgtkmm-2.4-1v5
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreoffice-gtk3

I see yours lists dkms and xwayland, which I know for certainty have no dependency with libreoffice-gtk3 package.
Any output for

grep "remove" /var/log/dpkg.log

If nothing, you can go a little further back

grep "remove" /var/log/dpkg.log.1

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I was now able to connect to the ethernet by using a docking station. I did

sudo apt install --reinstall fonts-zorin-os-core zorin-desktop-session zorin-os-desktop

and now everything seems to work again. I really don't know how I was able to break the system so heavily but reinstalling the above things fixed it.
Thank you both for helping me again!

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