I am on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, and the computer freezes after I enter in my login information.
I have looked thoroughly at the solutions presented on Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop but none of them work for me. I changed the ownership on ~/.ICEauthority and I don't have a ~/.Xauthority
I am using gdm3, not lightdm. I switched to lightdm, but then uninstalled it.
Now I cannot install gdm. Package 'gdm' has no installation candidate. What?! I've also tried gdm3 which doesn't appear to exist either. Solution here How do I switch from LightDM to GDM? doesn't work
per Freeze after login Ubuntu 18.04 I tried sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa I get errors that this bionic Release does not have a Release file.
as suggested on other pages, I've done sudo ubuntu-drivers devices which outputs
==sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-7/1-7:1.1 ==
modalias: usb:.......
vender: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
driver : rt18812au-dkms - distro free
the output of apt-search gdm3 is that I have gdm3/bionic-updates,bioinc-secuirty, now 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.4 amd64 [installed] GNOME Display Manager
output of sudo apt-get check shows no problems.
output of sudo lshw -C memory:
*- firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: LENOVO
physical id: 0
version: 3JCN19WW
date: 08/10/2016
size: 128 KiB
capacity: 6016KiB
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13flopppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
*-cache: 0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 5
slot: L1 cache
size: 128KiB
capacity: 128KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
configuration: level=1
*-cache: 1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 5
slot: L1 cache
size: 512KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
configuration: level=2
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 24
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 8GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5ns)
product: M471A5244BB0-CPB
vendor: Samsung
physical id: 0
serial: 00000000
slot: ChannelA-DIMMO
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 2133MHz (0.5ns)
*-bank:1
description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5ns)
product: M471A5143EB1-CRC
vendor: Samsung
physical id: 1
serial: 974F4E14
slot: ChannelB-DIMMO
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 2133MHz (0.5ns)
*-memory UNCLAIMED
description: Memory controller
product: Sunrise Point-LP PMC
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 21
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: latency = 0
resources: memory:bi224000-bi227fff
output of free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 355M 6.8G 106M 574M 7.0G
Swap: 7.9G 0B 7.9G
now I'm totally stuck. How do I get my Ubuntu back?
sudo apt updateand then provide the output ofapt search gdm3. Additionally,sudo apt-get checkwill check for broken dependencies, do you get any relevant output from that?ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Report back. Start comments to me with @heynnema or I may miss them.~/.local/share/gnome-shell/apt search gdm3shows that it is installed (?) and apt-get check shows no problems