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Background: I installed deps trying to get a Rust game engine working. During the process, I saw my icons on left side tabbar flick out for my browser, replaced with a standard icon. I resolved the dependency issues, got the game engine running.

On reboot, I got a TTY and logged in manually. apt get update, autoremove, dkpgs commands later, I tried installing lightdm. That broke my system further, as now the system gets stuck on loading screen. Ctrl+alt+f3 brings me to a blinking cursor.

Using escape on startup, I can enter recovery mode for linux 6. I'm logged in as root and unable to install gnome-shell, which I think I need to restore my GUI.

gnome-shell depends: evolution-data-server (>= 3.33.1) but it is not goign to be installed.. same for gnome-settingfs-daemon, libpulse-mainloop-glib0

Trying to install the lastone, "unmet dependencies: libpulse-mainloop-lglib0: Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8) but 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.12 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems

How do I fix this dependency hell and restore my ability to login through a GUI?

quantumpotato
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  • You've not provided any OS/release details (most packages are built for specific releases); but looking up a single package (libpulse0 | 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.13 | focal-updates | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x which you'll note is newer than your message) shows you're likely suffering as a result of careless & outdated sources being added. You mention linux 6 (Ubuntu 23.04 uses the 6.2 kernel) but packages do not match that release so please be specific. – guiverc May 07 '23 at 03:18
  • Try sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop. If it does not work, reinstall Ubuntu. – Archisman Panigrahi May 07 '23 at 03:38
  • @guiverc sorry, 20.04 ubuntu. I think it was 6.2 from safemode. Currently copying files out of my home directory o a USB, I'll check tomorrow. – quantumpotato May 07 '23 at 03:52
  • @guiverc I checked my source list - I had a few duplicates of archive.ubuntu -- will check again – quantumpotato May 07 '23 at 03:53
  • @ArchismanPanigrahi already tried the --reinstall and reinstalling the OS is *exactly& what I'm trying to avoid. – quantumpotato May 07 '23 at 03:53
  • @guiverc everything above the PPA section hasn't worked so far, I'll try reviewing & purging PPAs next – quantumpotato May 07 '23 at 03:55
  • I'd always started by updating your machines software lists; ie. sudo apt update and peruse the output looking for any issues (things that don't match your release), missing lines etc.. Your provided line matched libpulse0 | 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8 | focal-security | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x but not the latest found in libpulse0 | 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.13 | focal-updates | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x .. – guiverc May 07 '23 at 07:13
  • where as the wanted package was on original media (libpulse0 | 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 | focal | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x) ... ie. those lines just from a CLI enquiry on my system (rmadison libpulse0), but show a possible outdated repository issue, source issue etc.. (You can also explore packages online, ie. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libpulse0&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all would show most of the detail I got at terminal) – guiverc May 07 '23 at 07:14
  • Great tip, I will try that thank you – quantumpotato May 08 '23 at 15:51

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