Deleted something

[petkosix]

I rebooted my system and landed here:

I was deleting some things earlier and probably touched something i wasn’t supposed to. What should i do?

[ishaan2479]

try logging with your standard user and enter sudo systemctl restart gdm.service

[petkosix]

I don’t remember my username exactly. Is there a command to list the users?

[ishaan2479]

login as root and cat /etc/passwd. you will find your username somewhere below.

[petkosix]

Thanks i am now logged in as my regular user. I think i know what the problem is, i deleted pulseaudio (with all dependencies) while trying to remove an equalizer program. I tried now to install it with pacman and reboot but it didn’t work. Tried also to restart gdm.service but it returned Unit gdm.service not found.

[kisun]

Now that your login works take a look what you have removed before and install it again.

grep remove /var/log/pacman.log

… shows you the packages you removed. So you know which packages you have to install again.

[petkosix]

11:26 is when i deleted pulseaudio. So i have to install all there packages again? Please tell me these is a shortcut.

[kisun]

Seems you also removed your gnome.

I would start with this:

pamac install gnome-meta

@petkosix

Please tell me these is a shortcut

The only ‘shortcut’ is to restore from a backup or reinstall the whole system. If you dont want to reinstall or you dont have a backup of your system you have to install all these packages again by your own.

[petkosix]

I restored the system with Timeshift, luckily i had a snapshot from last week. Thank you all for the fast and insightful support and long live Timeshift!