Hey,
I’ve recently installed a new PC with Debian and Gnome as the desktop environment. I managed to get this running for about two weeks, but suddenly after starting my PC again, I got stuck while booting without the ability to continue. In this case, the PC and Debian appear to be functional, but Gnome seems to be unable to start (hence my post here, but please let me know if my issue is better suited over at Debian).
I’ve checked some logs with sudo journalctl -b and found the following which happens every time I start the PC:
gdm3[1009]: Gdm: GdmSession: no session desktop files installed, aborting…
systemd[1]: gdm.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
systemd[1]: gdm.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
systemd[1]: gdm.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.
I have checked the /usr/share/wayland-sessions and /usr/share/xsessions folders based on some searching around and the former exists with two desktop files, but the latter doesn’t. I also found that Gnome can only use Wayland these days and not X11, so this seems to make sense.
I have tried a bunch of different things to get my system to work the last couple of days but to no avail (maybe I only made stuff worse). Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be appreciated.