Failed to start session after Python-3 uninstall.

throwaway

Hello, thank you for taking the time to read my post.

I was trying to run speedtest through cli and decided to reinstall python-3.
During this process it seems that the desktop crashed.
Now I cannot log in. Any guidance would be appreciated.
I'm not super technical so I'll try to provide what info I can.
Thank you.

Staudey

Can you log in on a different TTY (e.g. TTY3 by pressing CTRL+ALT+F3)?
python3 is a hugely important package. Surely it must've shown you a big list of things it'll remove on uninstall?

If you can log in on a TTY (text/terminal mode only) first thing to try would probably be running eopkg hs, noting the operation number of the operation BEFORE the python3 removal, and then running sudo eopkg hs -t XX, where XX is the operation number. This will restore the (package) system to the point before the removal. After that you might still have to restart before being able to log in.

(some more info here: https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/history-and-rollback/en/)
(hs is just the short-hand for history btw)

In this example, if I wanted to go back to the state of the system before I installed the new nvidia-glx-driver packages, I'd run sudo eopkg hs -t 8251

throwaway

Thank you so much it worked.
Everything seems to be normal.
I am grateful.