unable to launnch cinnamon session cinnamon question...

Pen guin · 12-08-2022, 11:33 AM

From what I've been able to ascertain, because of the backup I made, now I'm unable to get to the desktop of my Linux installation.

The thread I saw, said to run

Quote:

sudo apt install cinnamon

and that should do the trick for my LinuxMint 20.3 installation.

My question is: if I run that command, will I lose all my documents in my Home folder, etc?

Thanks...

aus9 · 12-08-2022, 06:22 PM

1) I am guessing you can not login due to other post so you do need to read the chown command

get a getty

hold down CTRL key and ALT key and press either F1 or F2 etc....most distros have your graphics on getty 7

login as root
run

Code:

ls -al /home/yourlogin name

if you have lost ownership fix it using root powers

you may also need to fix read write permissions but you can report what you find later

Code:

chown yourname:yourname -R /home/<your login name>

reboot and see if you can login

2)

I suggest you get a linux live cd/usb.
It always helps in the long run to have a dedicated live product to let you look at things or rescue things.
eg
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?di...n=systemrescue

I use this distro to make backups using
fsarchiver rather than luckybackup

https://www.fsarchiver.org/quickstart/

however I use it for a full parition image to save or restore so that on a SSD writing takes just a few minutes and restoring about 40 seconds depending on how much data you have collected.

system rescue automatically is a root power autologin

Code:

# set up mount point
mkdir /z
mount /dev/sda4 /z

# to save a single partition
fsarchiver savefs /z/1.fsa /dev/sda1 -a

# to restore it after setting up mount point as this is a new boot up
fsarchiver restfs /z/1.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1

zeebra · 12-10-2022, 07:50 AM

This might be relevant here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...etc-etc-38387/

I'm not suggesting you are a newbie, but this contains a large part about Bash and Coreutils, and what you are looking for is a central part of coreutils. Specifically ls, chown, chgrp, chmod. Of which chmod is the most complicated.. And I hate too be too specific, but

Code:

ls -la

seems like a good place to start, creating a good overview. Even

Code:

man ls

, and probably even more useful is

Code:

ls -lhRa

to understand what that is exactly then

Code:

ls --help

Then:

Code:

man chown

Code:

man chgrp

Code:

man chmod

Once all these are settled, it should be far easier to move on to the next part and find a great solution to what it is you are trying to do.