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Upgrade Mint 15 to 16, now unable to login

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pw257008

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The issue is, my login screen refuses to come up. It says it encountered an error while loading Mechanical (steampunk login screen theme that i used). And I have no way to get in to the system. Anyone know how to fix this without doing a fresh install? I'm willing to change the login screen if need be, but I can't get close to that far. I can't log in (I can pull up recovery mode, but the only seemingly relevant option is to pull up a root shell or whatever in there, and I wouldn't know what commands could help me out o this predicament, or where the files I need to change would be located).

And yes, I know fresh install is recommended. I just thought this way would be less work and more fun... More work and more fun so far, assuming I can get this fixed and learn something.
 
pw257008 said:
The issue is, my login screen refuses to come up. It says it encountered an error while loading Mechanical (steampunk login screen theme that i used). And I have no way to get in to the system. Anyone know how to fix this without doing a fresh install? I'm willing to change the login screen if need be, but I can't get close to that far. I can't log in (I can pull up recovery mode, but the only seemingly relevant option is to pull up a root shell or whatever in there, and I wouldn't know what commands could help me out o this predicament, or where the files I need to change would be located).

And yes, I know fresh install is recommended. I just thought this way would be less work and more fun... More work and more fun so far, assuming I can get this fixed and learn something.
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I would reinstall it, will take less time and headache, but you could try to post at Mint Forum for help but when i had Mint ops installed i registered there but it was pretty much useless, nobody there cares,that's why i Use Ubuntu cause i never run in trouble but if i do i just go to Ubuntu forums and people always come to our rescue.All my Pcs use Ubuntu and i don't want nothing else, beleive me i tried them all, but always go back to Ubuntu but not Unity just old Gnome flashback and XFCE
 
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