[Bug 1257927] Re: Installing mongodb package via aptitude destroys Cinnamon install

[Joseph Yennaco]

I got my Linux Mint 16 into this same state without ever touching
aptitude or mongodb.  It seemed to occur after some regular updates, I
don't do anything out of the ordinary with my Mint install, but when I
logged back in I got the blank screen with the "LM" icon floating in the
middle.  I can ALT-LEFT and get to terminal, run "sudo mdm", and get to
the login screen, however immediately after logging in I get "Session
Failed" with a detailed error message:

"cinnamon-session-cinnamon" not found; falling back to default session.
localuser:jyennaco being added to access control list
Script for cjkv started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Script for cjkv started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
x-session-manager[7996]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'cinnamon'
x-session-manager[7996]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'cinnamon-screensaver'
x-session-manager[7996]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'nemo-autostart'

(note also at this time by Wifi wasn't working, I had to plug in.  I saw
another forum where someone had these same 2 seemingly different
problems)

Naturally form the terminal I ran:

sudo apt-get --purge remove cinnamon && sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo apt-get install cinnamon-screensaver
sudo apt-get install nemo

After rebooting I was able to log in using "sudo mdm" and logging in, I
was got to my desktop!  However, cinnamon still does not start on a
normal boot without sudo mdm.

Please advise!  Thanks!

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Title:
  Installing mongodb package via aptitude destroys Cinnamon install

Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  New
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I've been using an install script to prepare my machine for
  development work for various Linux Mint installs - but using it for
  the latest version of Mint (Petra) seems to break Cinnamon.

  Here's how to reproduce it:
   1) Install Linux Mint 16 Petra (I've been using the 64 Bit Cinnamon edition).
   2) Once installed, run "sudo aptitude install -y mongodb".

  The mongodb packages seems to have some base conflicts with Cinnamon
  in some way - and it warns you that it intends to uninstall a lot of
  existing packages, including cinnamon. My script was intended for
  configuring my machine in an unattended way - and so the installation
  of mongodb triggered the uninstallation of Cinnamon and permanently
  broke the DE.

  It seems that using apt-get doesn't trigger it, but aptitude does - I
  thought that aptitude was semantically equivalent to apt-get, so don't
  understand what's causing this.

  If you install it via apt-get and then remove it in the same way, then
  installing via aptitude doesn't trigger the uninstallation of
  Cinnamon. I've not experienced this in either Mint 14 or Mint 15.

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