The following important packages were missing: gtk2-engines gvfs-bin dconf-tools network-manager-gnome gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gnome-terminal, so I installed them and tried to login... same issues.jube wrote:see which components of gnome-core you may be missing, obvious important ones are gconf/dconf gvfs, the gtk,s gnome-pannel, terminal, etc
I also installed jdk7 and jre, although I don't think those are required for a bare-bones Cinnamon. And I verified libpam-modules-bin which was suggested on Linux Mint forums but was already installed anyway.
Finally out of curiosity i also tried installing these (also missing among the other gnome-* stuff): gnome-packagekit gnome-power-manager gnome-control-center, but nothing changed so I removed them.
Of course i rebooted each time, verified installation of packages, etc. Don't know what to think... as I said, installing it is clearly not my thing