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I just updated to 18.04 from 16.04 and to 16.04 to 14.04 before that.

Anyway the 18.04 failed with an error saying something like gnome not installed and desktop depends on gnome. And it said it was going to recover, however it did nothing. After some time I restarted and the system. It came up with the desktop background but nothing else.

With Ctrl-Alt-F1 I am trying any commands I found without success.

Trying to install gnome I get missing dependencies. When trying to install gnome-shell and have a dependency for libmutter-2-0.

I installed libmutter-2-0 but gnome-shell still reports it as a missing dependency.

I also don't have gdm3 or seemingly any other parts of gnome.

I have no idea what I am doing, I have been searching and running commands for installing anything I can find, but so far no success.

I would like to get some gui working or go back to 16.04 if possible.

Edit 1 After N0rbert's advice:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Did something in the sense that I can see my a desktop, but I only see a login button the the account, which instantly fails even before I have a chance to enter my password. Here are some screenshots: login failed after click

Crash screen In previous version I had it not require a password to login so I am surprised it is asking for one. Is it possible I just need to reset the password or authentication system?

N0rbert
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MichaelE
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The following list of actions solved the problem:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install gnome-core lightdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm # select LightDM

then OP successfully logged in to the session.

N0rbert
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It is very probably related to an online update that was rolled out yesterday by Ubuntu.

People who have been upgrading to 18.04 yesterday are experiencing it (I cannot boot normally after online update 23.8.2018 from 16.04 to 18.04)

People (like who) have been using 18.04 but applied the patch are experiencing it (Debian login screen after updating Ubuntu 18.04)

I had the same problem as you on the second screenshot. The GDM starts but somehow cannot finish loading. I also noticed errors with amdpro and radeon module loading in the kernel log.

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