Ubuntu Hangs on Boot After Installing "gnome"

apt gnome desktop-environments ubuntu-gnome

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After purging gnome, your pc is still trying to boot in using gnome display manager. So , you must change your display manager. so try sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm and change your display manager to lightdm.

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Max Kulik

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Max Kulik over 1 year
I tried installing the gnome desktop environment on Ubuntu 15.10 by typing
```
sudo apt-get install gnome
```
Now when I try to boot up my computer It gets stuck on this screen:

EDIT

I have tried some trouble shooting of my own and used ctrl+alt+F4 to open the console. Once there I ran:
```
sudo apt-get purge gnome
```
It continued to remove all of gnome. After it finished I tried rebooting and the boot still hangs, but it's different now:
- Max Kulik over 8 years
  
  I still have not found a solution. I have also tried restarting the gui from the command line. I get the same error.
- kashish over 8 years
  
  After purging gnome, your pc is still trying to boot in using gnome display manager. So , you must change your display manager. so try sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm and change your display manager to lightdm. And then see what happens next.
- Max Kulik over 8 years
  
  @kashish It worked!
- Max Kulik over 8 years
  
  @kashish, But it's a comment, so I can't reward the rep bounty...
- user.dz over 8 years
  
  @MaxKulik, please avoid linking such unneeded high resolution pictures, resample/resize them before uploading (>5m each that wasting of user network bandwidth who trying to help). Btw, you have enough reputation to attach pictures. (why linking to google drive)
- Max Kulik over 8 years
  
  @Sneetsher, I will work on formatting my Questions better when using images. Since my computer wasn't working I was doing this from my phone.
- user.dz over 8 years
  
  @kashish , would you post an answer, so you can get your deserved bounty from MaxKulik.
- Max Kulik over 8 years
  
  @kashish, What he said ^^^
- user.dz over 8 years
  
  @MaxKulik, :) I missed that point, nice that you got solved.
- Max Kulik over 8 years
  
  @Sneetsher, In most cases I would have already just re-installed Ubuntu but this time I wanted to to do it right haha. I really didn't want to re-start again. Plus I knew it had to just be something simple due to the fact I wan't getting any errors.
- user.dz over 8 years
  
  @MaxKulik, Good so you learned new things. I forget to mention you were able to change resolution/quality in the phone before taking the pictures. ;) hopefully you will not get similar problems (where unable to login)
- kashish over 8 years
  
  @MaxKulik answer written :)