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Today I installed gnome-shell via terminal #apt install gnome-shell and tried to reboot my computer, but Ubuntu did not start. It stays in the loading screen forever and it won't let me ctrl+alt+F2 to enter TTY2.

I don't know how to fix it, neither I know how to uninstall gnome-shell.

There are similar questions about this problem, which looks like they have not actual solution, the questioner know beforehand how to uninstall gnome in this situation.

Running Ubuntu 16.10 on a Samsung RC410

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Solved:

  1. Boot in recovery mode and open root.
  2. Mount / as read-write: mount -o remount -rw / as enzotib said in a comment here.
  3. Now I can uninstall gnome via apt: apt remove gnome-shell.
  4. reboot.
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