Hello to everyone

If it is possible i need an help to fix an issue installing a software. The software installation didn't finish properly and is not even able to write the installation log file but mainly it breaks Gnome. I was auble to anything and after a reboot and the new login had a blue wallpaper without any icons like the one in this post: https://https://askubuntu.com/questi...top-background


I tried to remove ubuntu-desktop and all the gnome packages by

apt purge ubuntu-desktop gnome-*


reboot and reinstall them but nothing i still have the blue screen with no icons. what other can i try to fix gnome?

About the application who generate the issue it was installed on an ubuntu 20.04 where was applied some hardening(i.e umask more restricted ) but as far as i uderstood the installer wrote to /opt/.... and install some icons and mime types.

I was trying to understand what could have happened and what part on the hardening generate this issue during the software installation but still not claire, but for the moment i have no clue

Any help is appreciated

If it were me, I'd reinstall from scratch. In the long run, that will likely be easier than trying to fix this, especially as you say it's not even writing to the log files.

Just my two cents.

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Does logging into a freshly created account end up the same way?

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Your posts state you are having an issue installing software but do not indicate what software you tried to install? I don't know what anyone can do to specifically help the situation without knowing what software you tried to install. Are you still able to boot and log in and use a terminal?

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If you don't want to go the "reinstall from scratch" route, would you consider installing a different GUI? This will allow you to get yourself up and running again, or perhaps back up your files (if you're not keen on doing it from the command line).