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.
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 common: amd64 (44.0-2ubuntu3, 44.1-0ubuntu1) 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)
Commandline: apt dist-upgrade
Requested-By: alex (1000)
Upgrade: gnome-shell-
Remove: gnome-shell:amd64 (44.0-2ubuntu3), ubuntu-
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