When installing VMware, the terminal cursed that two versions of gtk were installed. For some reason it turned out that I have both 2.0 and 3.0 versions. I decided to remove both and reinstall the latest version. Removed, made a reboot, and that's it. The Linux mint logo appears and runs dots endlessly. Run through the terminal, wrote sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^ . The desktop has booted, however, I can only access it if they launch via the terminal and enter startx . If you do a reboot, the boot logo appears and the dots run endlessly.

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    Open the console, read remote packages in the logs and install the packages back. The gtk2 and gtk3 depend on the ALL graphics of the average ubuntu-based distribution, they should be both. Removing them, you deleted almost the entire system - andreymal
  • And yes, what does “not help” mean? - andreymal
  • The desktop starts if you write startx in the terminal, but if you do a reboot, the boot logo appears and the points run endlessly - Aleksandr Chernya
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    Press Esc and read the logs. And in general, read and log files, too - andreymal
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    When you remove any package through anything - be it an apt, a synaptic, or any other manager, you are always shown a list of dependencies that will be affected (if there are any). This info cannot be ignored! - Beast Winterwolf

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Solved a problem. I had the default lightdm display manager, changed it to gdm3 and everything worked fine.