On Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)
Hello, I uninstalled my amdgpu driver along with my video card and it bricked my GNOME session - I get an endless login loop. My unity session works fine. If I try to reinstall the classic session, I get:
sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-session-flashback Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-4.15.0-91 linux-headers-4.15.0-91-generic linux-image-4.15.0-91-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-91-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-91-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 5140 B of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 bionic-updates/universe amd64 gnome-session-flashback all 1:3.28.0-1ubuntu1.4 [5140 B] Fetched 5140 B in 0s (107 kB/s) (Reading database ... 303131 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../gnome-session-flashback_1%3a3.28.0-1ubuntu1.4_all.deb ... Unpacking gnome-session-flashback (1:3.28.0-1ubuntu1.4) over (1:3.28.0-1ubuntu1.4) ... Setting up gnome-session-flashback (1:3.28.0-1ubuntu1.4) ... gnome-session-flashback.target is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. I've installed the card again, with the exact same amdgpu-pro driver, but this error continues to persist.
Any help is appreciated!
Regards, L. B.
21 Answer
I managed to fix it by:
sudo apt-get purge gnome-session-fallback sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-session-flashback sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop Note: the penultimate command will fail again, but ignore this. I suspect that only the last command is really needed, but this is what I did as a sequence exactly.
I followed this post: How to fully remove all packages installed by 'gnome-session-fallback'?
Regards, L. B.
