Have you installed Gnome 3 from ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 because you were tired of Unity or just because you wanted to test the new shell and this has broken your login? Are you now on the login screen but no graphic environment will ever work?
Then you have to remove gnome 3 following the steps below:
- Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to access the terminal window and log in. At the prompt type following commands:
- sudo apt-get remove libgtk-3-common
- sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
- sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
- sudo shutdown –r now
The pc will reboot and you should be able to use Unity/Classic login again.
Good luck!
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Thanks mate Unity was driving me insane on my work desktop but Gnome 3 wouldn’t login in so time to swallow my pride and switch back to unity until I have time to switch to mint.
By: Anthony Mills on 2 June, 2011
at 6:03 am
Or just use Ubuntu Classic…
By: Stefano Prenna on 2 June, 2011
at 1:56 pm
hey! after sudo apt-get remove it gives an error of unmet dependencies
even after sudo apt-get -f install the error continues
By: tuhina jain on 9 June, 2011
at 3:38 pm
Maybe you have installed something else that is conflicting with the package you are trying to remove (I guess libgtk-3-common). Basically the system is telling you that if you remove that package, other software will not work anymore as it requires that package to work.
Try to install apt-rdepends by typing:
sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends
then you can execute it:
sudo apt-rdepends -r libgtk-3-common
(change libgtk-3-common for the package you are receving the error)
You will see a list of dependencies and probably you’ll be able to identify which software is causing the issue.
By: Stefano Prenna on 9 June, 2011
at 6:34 pm
thank god for these instructions, I tried removing all the updated packages, but nothing… thanks again
By: Russell on 28 June, 2011
at 9:51 am
Thanks alot for the explainnig
By: LinuEver on 23 March, 2012
at 8:11 pm
I did these accordingly. After It restarted it showed checking battery state. And it was like that didn’t go anywhere. I checked on forums for solutions somebody said it was display drivers, but I installed nvidia drivers instead of AMD now the screen is blank I can’t get to log in screen. Now am pissed off with ubuntu. This the third time my laptop is crashing, neva had this problems with windows. Any help will be deeply appreciated thanks in advance.
By: ikp4success on 14 April, 2012
at 3:50 pm
Most of the times a blank screen without the chance of reaching the login screen is drivers related.This can be rectified by using a mode similar to what you may know as “safe mode” in Windows.The first thing you need to look at is which graphic adapter do your computer have. If you don’t have this information, just check your pc manual or search its brand and model online for the specifications. At that point we will be able to understand which driver has to be installed and you’ll recover the login screen and all the functionalities of your Ubuntu…
By: Stefano Prenna on 15 April, 2012
at 7:08 am
I did these accordingly. After It restarted it showed checking battery state. And it was like that didn’t go anywhere. I checked on forums for solutions somebody said it was display drivers, but I installed nvidia drivers instead of AMD now the screen is blank I can’t get to log in screen. Now am pissed off with ubuntu. This the third time my laptop is crashing, neva had this problems with windows. Any help will be deeply appreciated thanks in advance.3
By: ikp4success on 14 April, 2012
at 3:52 pm
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