Need some advanced Linux help ASAP

[problemchild]

I was trying to do something I knew little about and trashed my system. Is there a way to fix this?

What I have: The latest Mint with cinnamon with encrypted drive
What I did: Tried to uninstall cinnamon and install unity from command line.
The results are it boots to a black screen and then nothing.

Where I am at now: I did some reading last night and found out how to unencrypt the drive by running---> sudo ecryptfs-recover-private<---- from a terminal on a booted LiveCD. I ran it and it said it was not mounted. I then explored to the drive from the folders and clicked on it. It asked for the pass and "mounted it". I then ran sudo ecryptfs-recover-private from a terminal and it found it and asked for "MOUNT PASSPHRASE" which I entered and it said it unencrypted it.

Now what? Do I repair grub?

[problemchild]

On Edit...............

Looks like it still boots. I rebooted and I see a second login screen which is user login i guess. It had a button i could click to change desktop environments. I changed to KDE and it booted. When I browse directories and drives I see one encrypted drive i cannot access. This is the message.............

" An error occurred while accessing '111.6 GiB Encrypted Drive', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: No such interface 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' on object at path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d0"


I have no idea what that means. Should i try to reinstall cinnamon and see if she boots back to normal?


Lost!

[problemchild]

On edit...

Here is what I get now trying to reinstall cinnamon.


user@dell ~ $ sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cinnamon : Depends: cinnamon-common (= 2.0.14+petra) but 2.0.14-20131221040025-saucy is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
user@dell ~ $

[njineermike]

I just had an unmet dependency issue. Let me see iif I can remember what I did.

[problemchild]

Fixed it I think..........

sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-common

[Helpful_Cub]

That brings back memories of why I have a love hate relationship with Linux.

[problemchild]

OK well I had it fixed but it was complaining about 2 dependencies. I installed both but one was already installed. I removed and reinstalled the one and it trashed the system again. Just would'nt boot to cinnamon. I spent the whole night dicking with it. I finally loaded all dependencies that were not already loaded from software manager (KDE) and its running now.

[njineermike]

OK well I had it fixed but it was complaining about 2 dependencies. I installed both but one was already installed. I removed and reinstalled the one and it trashed the system again. Just would'nt boot to cinnamon. I spent the whole night dicking with it. I finally loaded all dependencies that were not already loaded from software manager (KDE) and its running now.

I had an issue with VMWare and the open-source virtual machine tools doing that. Couldn't uninstall since it wasn't technically installed, could fix it because the dependencies were wonky. Ended up upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, and that fixed it.

[xrMike]

It's a rare thread in this forum where the OP solves his own problem before somebody (or 10 different people) jump in and tell him how to fix it. Congratulations.