Comment 0 for bug 2025462

This morning I got surprised by my laptop booting to a tty instead of a desktop environment. It turned out that the entire desktop environment was no longer present on my machine. Doing an apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal resolved the issue.

The machine had been running for a while. Looking at the apt logs, it looks like apt deleted ubuntu-desktop on its own during a dist-upgrade a couple of weeks back.

Start-Date: 2023-06-08 14:20:46
Commandline: apt dist-upgrade
Requested-By: alex (1000)
Upgrade: gnome-shell-common:amd64 (44.0-2ubuntu3, 44.1-0ubuntu1)
Remove: gnome-shell:amd64 (44.0-2ubuntu3), ubuntu-desktop:amd64 (1.501), gdm3:amd64 (44.0-1ubuntu1), gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng:amd64 (46+really47.0.2-3), gnome-shell-extension-appindicator:amd64 (53-1), ubuntu-session:amd64 (44.0-1ubuntu1), gnome-shell-extension-manager:amd64 (0.4.0-1), gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock:amd64 (79ubuntu2.23.04.1), ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 (1.501)
End-Date: 2023-06-08 14:20:48

I'm using the following version of Ubuntu:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 23.04
Release: 23.04
Codename: lunar