Linux mint 18 64-Bit session failed
I am trying to login on my laptop. I write the password and then I am logged in to a black page, where a notice said
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of the diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
the code says:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: connection refused mdm[1699]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion 'key_file != NULL' failed
The only button available is "Okay", the I return to the login page where I should write my password again. It keeps repeating it self again and again. I don't understand why??!
One day ago, there was a new update for the system. I did update it. Can this be the reason??
Thank you for your help in forward.
linux-mint login
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I am trying to login on my laptop. I write the password and then I am logged in to a black page, where a notice said
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of the diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
the code says:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: connection refused mdm[1699]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion 'key_file != NULL' failed
The only button available is "Okay", the I return to the login page where I should write my password again. It keeps repeating it self again and again. I don't understand why??!
One day ago, there was a new update for the system. I did update it. Can this be the reason??
Thank you for your help in forward.
linux-mint login
Upgrade from Mint 17 or fresh installation?
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:15
@Bahamut no an update in the update center. It was called a Kernal update.
– NekoMisaki
Feb 20 '17 at 11:32
1
Hm. press STR+ALT+F2 and login.sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install
Maybe update was interrupted
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:38
Yes something was interrupted. The Cinnamon was not installed somehow. Thanks a lot for the help.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:57
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I am trying to login on my laptop. I write the password and then I am logged in to a black page, where a notice said
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of the diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
the code says:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: connection refused mdm[1699]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion 'key_file != NULL' failed
The only button available is "Okay", the I return to the login page where I should write my password again. It keeps repeating it self again and again. I don't understand why??!
One day ago, there was a new update for the system. I did update it. Can this be the reason??
Thank you for your help in forward.
linux-mint login
I am trying to login on my laptop. I write the password and then I am logged in to a black page, where a notice said
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of the diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
the code says:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: connection refused mdm[1699]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion 'key_file != NULL' failed
The only button available is "Okay", the I return to the login page where I should write my password again. It keeps repeating it self again and again. I don't understand why??!
One day ago, there was a new update for the system. I did update it. Can this be the reason??
Thank you for your help in forward.
linux-mint login
linux-mint login
edited Feb 19 '17 at 17:22
asked Feb 19 '17 at 17:13
NekoMisaki
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Upgrade from Mint 17 or fresh installation?
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:15
@Bahamut no an update in the update center. It was called a Kernal update.
– NekoMisaki
Feb 20 '17 at 11:32
1
Hm. press STR+ALT+F2 and login.sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install
Maybe update was interrupted
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:38
Yes something was interrupted. The Cinnamon was not installed somehow. Thanks a lot for the help.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:57
add a comment |
Upgrade from Mint 17 or fresh installation?
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:15
@Bahamut no an update in the update center. It was called a Kernal update.
– NekoMisaki
Feb 20 '17 at 11:32
1
Hm. press STR+ALT+F2 and login.sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install
Maybe update was interrupted
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:38
Yes something was interrupted. The Cinnamon was not installed somehow. Thanks a lot for the help.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:57
Upgrade from Mint 17 or fresh installation?
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:15
Upgrade from Mint 17 or fresh installation?
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:15
@Bahamut no an update in the update center. It was called a Kernal update.
– NekoMisaki
Feb 20 '17 at 11:32
@Bahamut no an update in the update center. It was called a Kernal update.
– NekoMisaki
Feb 20 '17 at 11:32
1
1
Hm. press STR+ALT+F2 and login.
sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install
Maybe update was interrupted– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:38
Hm. press STR+ALT+F2 and login.
sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install
Maybe update was interrupted– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:38
Yes something was interrupted. The Cinnamon was not installed somehow. Thanks a lot for the help.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:57
Yes something was interrupted. The Cinnamon was not installed somehow. Thanks a lot for the help.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:57
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In my case I had installed virtualbox-guest-x11
on the base box so I had messed up x11 drivers. So I was getting this error message on $HOME/.xsession-errors
:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
syndaemon: no process found
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:raskolnikov being added to access control list
I removed the package and re-installed cinnamon
.
aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11 -y
aptitude install cinnamon -y
Restarted the box and it worked.
1
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
1
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
1
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
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There seems to be a problem with the most recent update of virtualbox-guest-x11.
I'm running Mint 18 Sarah, Mate edition, and after that update (27 or 28 March 2018) I had lost most of my icons from my panel, could not use any GUI tools to look at my network or printers and could not launch many of my applications, including Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Xreader and Synaptic. The unlaunchable applications would give no error messages when I tried launching them, regardless of whether I tried as myself or as root, from the GUI or from the terminal, with or without -v
or -vv
.
A member of a local Linux user group directed me to this board. I ran
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-guest-x11
and everything returned to 'normal'. I did not even have to reinstall the Mate desktop.
Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
add a comment |
I don't know what you have done, but one thing is confirmed that some files were missed, which cause xwindow
can't start normally. The solution is reinstalling the xwindow
to make up the missing files.
Try Ctrl
+Alt
+F1
to open another shell
, then
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo reboot
until get the GUI start up. It takes minutes, be patient, good luck.
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
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In my case I had installed virtualbox-guest-x11
on the base box so I had messed up x11 drivers. So I was getting this error message on $HOME/.xsession-errors
:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
syndaemon: no process found
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:raskolnikov being added to access control list
I removed the package and re-installed cinnamon
.
aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11 -y
aptitude install cinnamon -y
Restarted the box and it worked.
1
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
1
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
1
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
add a comment |
In my case I had installed virtualbox-guest-x11
on the base box so I had messed up x11 drivers. So I was getting this error message on $HOME/.xsession-errors
:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
syndaemon: no process found
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:raskolnikov being added to access control list
I removed the package and re-installed cinnamon
.
aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11 -y
aptitude install cinnamon -y
Restarted the box and it worked.
1
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
1
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
1
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
add a comment |
In my case I had installed virtualbox-guest-x11
on the base box so I had messed up x11 drivers. So I was getting this error message on $HOME/.xsession-errors
:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
syndaemon: no process found
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:raskolnikov being added to access control list
I removed the package and re-installed cinnamon
.
aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11 -y
aptitude install cinnamon -y
Restarted the box and it worked.
In my case I had installed virtualbox-guest-x11
on the base box so I had messed up x11 drivers. So I was getting this error message on $HOME/.xsession-errors
:
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
syndaemon: no process found
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:raskolnikov being added to access control list
I removed the package and re-installed cinnamon
.
aptitude remove virtualbox-guest-x11 -y
aptitude install cinnamon -y
Restarted the box and it worked.
answered Mar 26 at 19:16
alfredocambera
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30835
1
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
1
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
1
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
add a comment |
1
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
1
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
1
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
1
1
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
This worked for me, thanks!
– Turk
Mar 27 at 13:51
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
I had today the problem again and tried your solution. After I removed the virtualbox I tried to install but the packages were all installed. So I think the first code is the solution. Thanks anyway 👍🏻
– NekoMisaki
Apr 5 at 8:57
1
1
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
Agreed with @nekomisaki just removing virtualbox worked.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Apr 9 at 13:53
1
1
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
Great that my solution is helping so many people. I took me a few hours to found out what was happening.
– alfredocambera
Apr 9 at 20:43
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
I would add this is how you get to terminal to do this fix: To get full screen command line you can use Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6). That gives you up to 6 different full screen sessions. You can switch to the graphical session by Ctrl+Alt+F8 and switch between all of them using the keyboard. (borrowed from: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252672)
– pthurmond
Nov 11 at 2:35
add a comment |
There seems to be a problem with the most recent update of virtualbox-guest-x11.
I'm running Mint 18 Sarah, Mate edition, and after that update (27 or 28 March 2018) I had lost most of my icons from my panel, could not use any GUI tools to look at my network or printers and could not launch many of my applications, including Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Xreader and Synaptic. The unlaunchable applications would give no error messages when I tried launching them, regardless of whether I tried as myself or as root, from the GUI or from the terminal, with or without -v
or -vv
.
A member of a local Linux user group directed me to this board. I ran
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-guest-x11
and everything returned to 'normal'. I did not even have to reinstall the Mate desktop.
Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
add a comment |
There seems to be a problem with the most recent update of virtualbox-guest-x11.
I'm running Mint 18 Sarah, Mate edition, and after that update (27 or 28 March 2018) I had lost most of my icons from my panel, could not use any GUI tools to look at my network or printers and could not launch many of my applications, including Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Xreader and Synaptic. The unlaunchable applications would give no error messages when I tried launching them, regardless of whether I tried as myself or as root, from the GUI or from the terminal, with or without -v
or -vv
.
A member of a local Linux user group directed me to this board. I ran
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-guest-x11
and everything returned to 'normal'. I did not even have to reinstall the Mate desktop.
Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
add a comment |
There seems to be a problem with the most recent update of virtualbox-guest-x11.
I'm running Mint 18 Sarah, Mate edition, and after that update (27 or 28 March 2018) I had lost most of my icons from my panel, could not use any GUI tools to look at my network or printers and could not launch many of my applications, including Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Xreader and Synaptic. The unlaunchable applications would give no error messages when I tried launching them, regardless of whether I tried as myself or as root, from the GUI or from the terminal, with or without -v
or -vv
.
A member of a local Linux user group directed me to this board. I ran
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-guest-x11
and everything returned to 'normal'. I did not even have to reinstall the Mate desktop.
There seems to be a problem with the most recent update of virtualbox-guest-x11.
I'm running Mint 18 Sarah, Mate edition, and after that update (27 or 28 March 2018) I had lost most of my icons from my panel, could not use any GUI tools to look at my network or printers and could not launch many of my applications, including Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Xreader and Synaptic. The unlaunchable applications would give no error messages when I tried launching them, regardless of whether I tried as myself or as root, from the GUI or from the terminal, with or without -v
or -vv
.
A member of a local Linux user group directed me to this board. I ran
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-guest-x11
and everything returned to 'normal'. I did not even have to reinstall the Mate desktop.
edited Mar 29 at 10:05
Yurij Goncharuk
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answered Mar 29 at 8:19
Andrew Packer
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Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
add a comment |
Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thanks for sharing. I did not even need to restart my box. After removing the driver, the next login attempt worked. I'm using Cinnamon.
– Scolytus
Apr 22 at 19:57
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
Thank you, this was my issue as well.
– Adrian
Sep 13 at 6:47
add a comment |
I don't know what you have done, but one thing is confirmed that some files were missed, which cause xwindow
can't start normally. The solution is reinstalling the xwindow
to make up the missing files.
Try Ctrl
+Alt
+F1
to open another shell
, then
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo reboot
until get the GUI start up. It takes minutes, be patient, good luck.
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
add a comment |
I don't know what you have done, but one thing is confirmed that some files were missed, which cause xwindow
can't start normally. The solution is reinstalling the xwindow
to make up the missing files.
Try Ctrl
+Alt
+F1
to open another shell
, then
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo reboot
until get the GUI start up. It takes minutes, be patient, good luck.
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
add a comment |
I don't know what you have done, but one thing is confirmed that some files were missed, which cause xwindow
can't start normally. The solution is reinstalling the xwindow
to make up the missing files.
Try Ctrl
+Alt
+F1
to open another shell
, then
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo reboot
until get the GUI start up. It takes minutes, be patient, good luck.
I don't know what you have done, but one thing is confirmed that some files were missed, which cause xwindow
can't start normally. The solution is reinstalling the xwindow
to make up the missing files.
Try Ctrl
+Alt
+F1
to open another shell
, then
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo reboot
until get the GUI start up. It takes minutes, be patient, good luck.
edited Mar 6 '17 at 14:00
answered Feb 28 '17 at 7:53
Jactor
212
212
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
add a comment |
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Thank you for replying. That was exactly the problem. Cinnamon was somehow not installed.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:55
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
Happy to help you.
– Jactor
Mar 6 '17 at 13:56
add a comment |
protected by Community♦ Dec 18 at 15:09
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Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count).
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Upgrade from Mint 17 or fresh installation?
– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:15
@Bahamut no an update in the update center. It was called a Kernal update.
– NekoMisaki
Feb 20 '17 at 11:32
1
Hm. press STR+ALT+F2 and login.
sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install
Maybe update was interrupted– user192526
Feb 20 '17 at 11:38
Yes something was interrupted. The Cinnamon was not installed somehow. Thanks a lot for the help.
– NekoMisaki
Mar 5 '17 at 13:57