cinnamon-session-cinnamon [SOLVED]

The OP has left the building, as has @dos2unix , but he or another of our collective brains trust eg @osprey et al will know. They may need the OP to be present to answer questions, and it might be subject to data allowance with ISP or provider.

Other points I have considered -
  • Best option for Cinnamon problems would likely be
    Code: 
    sudo apt install --reinstall cinnamon
  • If Repo/Mirrors problems persist, the best option would be to engineer /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list as with #34
That second one likely needs to be performed before the Cinnamon one, and doing it from the Root shell would require use of nano or other CLI editor
 


wizardfromoz said:
The OP has left the building, as has @dos2unix , but he or another of our collective brains trust eg @osprey et al will know. They may need the OP to be present to answer questions, and it might be subject to data allowance with ISP or provider.

Other points I have considered -
  • Best option for Cinnamon problems would likely be
    Code: 
    sudo apt install --reinstall cinnamon
  • If Repo/Mirrors problems persist, the best option would be to engineer /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list as with #34
That second one likely needs to be performed before the Cinnamon one, and doing it from the Root shell would require use of nano or other CLI editor
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My concern is that OP removed network manager and never re-installed it.

I could be wrong but I'm thinking that the distribution won't able to pull from the newly engineered sources.list with network manager missing?
 
Aah, understood. I have trying to follow this Thread but other commitments have required my attention.

I'd still try the above, if if network-manager's absence is compulsory, an error might provide an alternative.
 
wizardfromoz said:
Aah, understood. I have trying to follow this Thread but other commitments have required my attention.

I'd still try the above, if if network-manager's absence is compulsory, an error might provide an alternative.
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Roger that.
The network could be manually configured however one would have to know the subnet mask, network name, ssid, encryption type and the like. This may be challenging for a noob but doable.
 
confusion said:
The output is “ls: cannot access ‘/usr/bin/cinnamon-session-cinnamon’: No such file or directory”, and I had a Wi-Fi problem before this so I tried to uninstall and reinstall network manager… network manager was never reinstalled, so I kinda can’t connect to Wi-Fi
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I'm coming in to the party late here. But this seems to be the problem?

confusion said:
I have no idea what that is, but there’s nothing important in it either
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If this is the case, and the network connection can't be fixed, it would seem that
the obvious solution would be able to re-install Mint from scratch.

None of the apt commands will work without a network connection.
 
Alexzee said:
The network could be manually configured however one would have to know the subnet mask, network name, ssid, encryption type
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This could be another option. It's more complicated for a newbie, but we can give it a try.

First - lets check if networkManager is really gone.

What is the output of..

Code: 
 nmcli conn show

That may give an error, but at least we'll know.

Assuming that doesn't work, do you still have the ip commands?
What is the output of..

Code: 
 ip addr

If that doesn't work, you really have no-choice but to re-install.
If it does work, we can give some commands of how to get you on the network.
Once that's done.. then you can use apt to re-install whatever you need.

i.e.

Code: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install network-manager
sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment

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How are you connected to the internet? With wi-fi or an ethernet cable?
If you are using ethernet, this will be much simpler.
If you're using wi-fi it can still be done, but is much harder, especially without a GUI.

For ethernet
Code: 
 ip link show
Look for the Ethernet interface, typically named eth0 or enp0s3.

Code: 
 sudo ip link set eth0 up
We will need to change the "eth0" to whatever your interface name is.

Code: 
 sudo dhclient eth0
This assumes you are using dhcp.
 
dos2unix said:
This could be another option. It's more complicated for a newbie, but we can give it a try.

First - lets check if networkManager is really gone.

What is the output of..

Code: 
 nmcli conn show

That may give an error, but at least we'll know.

Assuming that doesn't work, do you still have the ip commands?
What is the output of..

Code: 
 ip addr

If that doesn't work, you really have no-choice but to re-install.
If it does work, we can give some commands of how to get you on the network.
Once that's done.. then you can use apt to re-install whatever you need.

i.e.

Code: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install network-manager
sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment

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I’m not sure if this is an error, but it seems to work I think
 
dos2unix said:
How are you connected to the internet? With wi-fi or an ethernet cable?
If you are using ethernet, this will be much simpler.
If you're using wi-fi it can still be done, but is much harder, especially without a GUI.

For ethernet
Code: 
 ip link show
Look for the Ethernet interface, typically named eth0 or enp0s3.

Code: 
 sudo ip link set eth0 up
We will need to change the "eth0" to whatever your interface name is.

Code: 
 sudo dhclient eth0
This assumes you are using dhcp.
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I usually use Wi-Fi but I do have an Ethernet cable, although I haven’t used it on this laptop.
 
Alexzee said:
Ok-not good.

Before we run the commands below the dotted line to see if the boot directory has all of it's config files and etc. are still there, let's see if the Cinnamon Desktop is still in place.

Run these commands from the prompt your at. One at a time.
Code: 
ls /usr/bin/*-session
Code: 
dpkg -l | grep cinnamon

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the screenshot you posted in post # 73 at the prompt:
Code: 
root@hpadmin-HP-15-TS-Notebook-PC:~#

At the end of that prompt type:
Code: 
cd /boot/

Then press Enter

Then when all of the output from the /boot directory shows and your at the prompt again, type:
Code: 
ls

Then press enter

And lastly when all of the output from ls shows at the prompt type:
Code: 
ls -l

That's a small letter L after the hyphen
Then press enter
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This is the output of the commands
 
The bad news is.. networkManager is really gone.

The good news is.. your ip stack seems to be working.

Can you plug an ethernet cable from your computer to your wi-fi router?

Then run...

sudo ip link set enp4s0 up

then run...

sudo dhclient enp4s0

Once that's run, give the output of ip addr again.
 
dos2unix said:
The bad news is.. networkManager is really gone.

The good news is.. your ip stack seems to be working.

Can you plug an ethernet cable from your computer to your wi-fi router?

Then run...

sudo ip link set enp4s0 up

then run...

sudo dhclient enp4s0

Once that's run, give the output of ip addr again.
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This is the output, but I’m not sure if the Ethernet cable worked. I have others, but I’m not sure if this specific one is broken or not.
 
confusion said:
I’m not sure if the Ethernet cable worked.
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Yep, it worked. Now you're on the network.

Let's see if you can run these commands.

Code: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install network-manager
sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment
 
dos2unix said:
Yep, it worked. Now you're on the network.

Let's see if you can run these commands.

Code: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install network-manager
sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment
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I’ve done all 3, is there anything else?
 
Great!. One last command

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target

If you get no errors, reboot
 
You can setup wi-fi again now and remove the ethernet cable.

I don't currently have Mint installed, so I'll let the Mint experts take over now.

Glad it's working for you.
 
confusion said:
Is there a way to mark this thread as fixed?
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I think if you go back to the original first post in this thread, you can edit the title, and add [SOLVED]
 
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