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So, yesterday i installed a new shell. Xubuntu to be more exact. So today i tried to remove ubuntu-desktop, well.

Everything working perfectly, i rebooted my computer and still working.

Then i went to the terminal and typed

sudo apt-get autoremove

Everything still working so i decided to logoff that's when I realized that my mouse and keyboard did not work anymore.

I rebooted and it continues the same way.

Ps:

  1. The keyboard works perfectly in Grub and recovery mode.
  2. Dpkg gives me "Failed to fetch" in every file.e
  3. The same thing happens in the recovery root using apt-get update and etc "Failed to fetch"

I'm stuck at the login screen

There is a way to fix this?

Update 1:

Keyboard don't work at all at login screen, can't use Ctrl+alt+F1" and as said, Every command like that give failed to fetch in every file (using recovery mode root)

The only way to turn off the computer while in the login screen is by pressing the power button in my pc. and nope, the other kernel don't work at all. Also i tried the apt update again and i get this "chmod 0700 of directory /var/cache/archives/partial failed - setupAPTPartialDirectory (30: Read-only file system)

Ubuntu 17.04

Ongezell
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  • Does Ctrl+Alt+F1 do anything at the login screen? It should give you a text-based virtual console. (Alt+F7 should take you back to the GUI.) On the virtual console Ctrl+Alt+F1 switches to, you may be able to log in. Depending how your computer accesses the Internet and how the network connection is managed, you might be able to use it from the virtual console while not logged into a graphical session. Does ping www.google.com work on that virtual console? (Ctrl+C stops it.) Does sudo apt update give errors? Please [edit] with details. – Eliah Kagan Sep 15 '17 at 03:53
  • Keyboard don't work at all at login screen, can't use Ctrl+alt+F1" and as said, Every command like that give failed to fetch in every file (using recovery mode root) – Ongezell Sep 15 '17 at 03:56
  • Can you select a different kernel version in the GRUB menu? Does the keyboard with any of them? Btw even if the it doesn't otherwise seem to do anything, Ctrl+Alt+F1 might still work--but I'll take your comment as saying you've tried and it didn't. You mentioned you rebooted at the login screen. How did you do this? Did you power cycle the machine? Does Alt+SysRq+REISUB work there? If REISUB does work, that's useful information about what might be wrong (because it means the keyboard does work for at least that) and also that's preferable to the reset button. – Eliah Kagan Sep 15 '17 at 04:03
  • The only way to turn off the computer while in the login screen is by pressing the power button in my pc. and nope, the other kernel don't work at all.

    Also i tried the apt update again and i get this "chmod 0700 of directory /var/cache/archives/partial failed - setupAPTPartialDirectory (30: Read-only file system)

     – Ongezell Sep 15 '17 at 04:11
  • The "Failed to fetch" error suggests your Internet connection doesn't work in recovery mode, which is to be expected. Do you connect through Ethernet, WiFi, or something else? Are your keyboard/mouse at all special? Wireless? Do they require setup to be used with a new machine? (Or is it a laptop keyboard?) Did you install the xubuntu-desktop package with apt-get? If not, how? Before sudo apt-get autoremove what did you run? Was it sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop? What Ubuntu version is this? I recommend you [edit] your question with all the information you've given in comments. – Eliah Kagan Sep 15 '17 at 04:25
  • I use Ethernet, My keyboard and mouse are both USB. They didn't require any setup to be used. Yuep, i installed the xubuntu-desktop package with apt-get – Ongezell Sep 15 '17 at 04:38
  • i used

    sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d unity-2d-common unity-2d-panel unity-2d-shell unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-common unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-scope-musicstores unity-scope-video-remote unity-services indicator-messages indicator-status-provider-mc5 appmenu-qt appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 lightdm xserver-xorg unity-greeter overlay-scrollbar zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub activity-log-manager-common activity-log-manager-control-center sudo purge unity8 sudo apt autoremove

     – Ongezell Sep 15 '17 at 04:39
  • Were both sudo apt-get remove ... and sudo apt autoremove run after sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop? That might explain why you're having problems: a GUI login screen usually needs lightdm and xserver-xorg. (Removing them would also remove the xubuntu-desktop metapackage.) If the GUI login screen still looked the same, that's strange, though. In the Recovery Menu can you select "Drop to root shell prompt with networking"? Then does ping www.google.com work? (Ctrl+C cancels it.) If not, does sudo service network-manager start show errors and can you ping after that? – Eliah Kagan Sep 15 '17 at 05:05
  • i did the sudo apt-get remove and sudo apt autoremove after doing apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.

    Also i did the ping www.google.com I get " Ping: www.google.com: temporary failure in name resolution" update: I did something really bad, every .conf file got deleted haha i don't have the resolv.conf

     – Ongezell Sep 15 '17 at 05:17
  • How and when were .conf files deleted? Can you explain that fully in your question? Was it before you tried to switch to Xfce? This may help explain why your keyboard and mouse are don't work on the graphical login screen (as if the problem were just that Xorg and LightDM were removed, REISUB should be unaffected). I recommend you [edit] your question again with a full explanation of this, as well as all the information in comments that didn't make it into your last edit. The edits should help other people understand what is going on so they may help too (and also they bump your question). – Eliah Kagan Sep 15 '17 at 05:23
  • Have you managed to solve the issue? I am having the same problem. – mirgee Nov 29 '17 at 19:23

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