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gnome-session package

Installed gnome3 on Natty, can't log in any more!

Asked by Zoran Mirosevic on 2011-05-23

I've installed gnome3 on 11.04.
During installation, following command line isntructions, no error was displayed.
Once installation terminated, asked to restart for change to complete.
Restarted system, login screen asked for user, than password and hanged there.
Desktop shows only upper taskbar with off button in the upper left corner, grayed login screen.
Can't login anymore in to the system.

I've tried from root-with-networking-command-line "http://askubuntu.com/questions/22946/how-do-i-install-the-latest-version-of-gnome-3", which resulted without success.
Something got wrong here, no If I try to update from root-with-networking-command-line it gets the message:
E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-natty.list
E: The list of sources could be read

How can I bring back the 11.04 classic Ubuntu session and login normally?

Thansk in advance

Zoran Mirosevic

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu gnome-session Edit question

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Solved by:: Sam_

Solved:: 2011-05-24

Last query:: 2011-05-24

Last reply:: 2011-05-23

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Sam_ (and-sam) said on 2011-05-23:

> E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d

You could try to repair this by opening sources.list.d, assume the 'ain' can either be removed or means 'main'.

> How can I bring back the 11.04 classic Ubuntu session

The link you've posted has a suggestion.
< Removing GNOME3 and going back to stock 11.04
Following these steps will remove the GNOME3 PPA and revert your packages>

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Zoran Mirosevic (zoran-mirosevic) said on 2011-05-23:

Thanks Sam on prompt answer,
I need few clarifications:
- Since I can't log in to the system, only way to do repair is from command line. I'm not skilled enough to complete repair without detailed instructions. I'm asking you therefore to instruct how to edit/repair "/etc/apt/sources.list.d"
- As I've stated in the initial question, I've already followed the link wich you're mentioning again, without positive results, reverting packages was unsuscesful living me without possibility to update sources and revert packages. I have a feeling that it might be due to broken "/etc/apt/sources.list.d"

Still need help

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