Evening.
I recently upgrade Ubuntu to 17.04 and ran into a problem. I can log into any user that existed in my machine, but only when dropping to the terminal. I cannot do that by regular means in the Ubuntu splash screen. I started looking into it and looks like the package gnome-session is not getting installed because there is a missing dependency for it. The exact problem is that somewhere during the upgrade, the following package had a problem: 3.24.0-0Ubuntu1.
I tried installing, purging and autocleaning several times but I keep getting the following problem:
gnome-session: Depends: gnome-session-bin (>=3.24.0-0Ubuntu) but 3.18.1.2-1Ubuntu1.16.04.2 is to installed.
Has anybody run into this issue?
NOTE: I tried installing another of the dependencies and I got the following:
gnome-session-bin: Depends: libgles2-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going to be installed or libgles2.
I tried another command here to see if I could reinstall my desktop.
apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop and got the following error:
ubuntu-desktop: Depends: ubuntu-session but it is not going to be installed Recommends: unity8-desktop-session but it is not going to be installed E: unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Thanks, Raf
sudo apt-get install -f --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
?-f
is for "try to automatically fix broken dependencies"