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Gnome Desktop Randomly Missing

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mahoef
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Gnome Desktop Randomly Missing

#1 Post by mahoef »

Hi all,

I've had the following scenario happen several times already running debian 11:

1) computer restart or crash and then reboot
2) gnome desktop missing and I boot into terminal

previously I could run tasksel and choose GNOME Desktop and reinstall the desktop environment. Today when this happened again, I got the "apt-get failed error message". For whatever reason, the network manager would not start and I had to manually call "ifup <interface>", switch to su permissions and then pretty much clear/clean all apt history/cached information and reset the sources.list to the default values prior to being able to run apt update and apt upgrade and finally apt install gnome-shell. When attempting to perform the same commands via sudo I got stuck at not being about to install gnome-shell or gnome-session because some dependencies could not be found.

What could be the reason why the desktop environment and essentially all packages that are installed via "install gnome-session" disappear sporadically?

Thanks for the help!

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Re: Gnome Desktop Randomly Missing

#2 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Sounds like your drive may be dying.

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/smartmontools
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Re: Gnome Desktop Randomly Missing

#3 Post by mahoef »

Thanks for the hint. It's a relatively new SSD and I've run the extensive diagnostics test without any errors. Is there anything else I could check?
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