I've been struggling (installing, reinstalling, configuring nvidia, bumblebee, nouveau, etc) with this for days. the solution of removing (in my case, just moving to .old) the ~/.local/share/cinnamon and ~/.cinnamon) folders worked like a charm. Still starting in software rendering, but my cinnamon is back! And qiana will rule till 2019.

Dude you need lessons haha what a joke.

@Hackerit you may be an expert hacker, others - most others - are still learning.
Try and be patient, rather than rude.

@Hackerit: rude behaviour is not accepted at LQ. Please do not use such language in the further posts.

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I have to say that this trick still works like a champ.. I recently decide to do something foolish and upgrade my kernel.
had the issue that the OP mentioned. What this awesome user mentioned fixed the trick right away.

None of above helps to me.
But on this page
webupd8.org/2014/12/install-cinnamon-24-stable-in-ubuntu.html

the complete reinstall command worked just fine to resolve the issue

Hi All,

I am having the same problem as documented in this thread.

Background:
- Brand new install of Mint 18 on an older (Dual Core Pentium 3.4GHz) PC
- Install seemed to go smoothly
- Original issue was crashing (no response to mouse or keyboard) as soon as Firefox was opened.
- Ran Device Manager and updated to the recommended Nvidia driver
- That seemed to fix the crashing problem
- Ran update manager and rec'd/installed many updates
- Upon subsequent reboot I am faced with the below message at bootup/log in

"Cinnamon Just Crashed. You are currently running in Fallback mode, Do you want to restart Cinnamon?" with a Yes/No prompt

- Hitting Yes and it happens again, rinse/repeat
- When I hit No, I notice there is no Cinnamon interface; the menu is at the upper left with "Applications" and "Places" being the only selections
- I wanted to try some of the command line suggestions in this thread but I cannot find how to launch terminal and the Ctrl-Alt-T shortcut produces nothing.

- I see "segfault" errors that seem to correspond with the Crash message, in the syslog, see below example:

Jan 2 10:59:01 MS-7399 kernel: [ 448.124556] cinnamon[2942]: segfault at 0 ip b6dab1fa sp bfc9b9b0 error 4 in libc-2.23.so[b6d35000+1af000]

- Lastly I cannot see the any way to gracefully shutdown/reboot the PC, I do not see any shutdown or reboot option off the "Applications" or "Places" menu.

Thanks in advance for any help given

Regards,
LA

Typing CTRL-ATL-F1 or and of CTRL-ALT-F(2/3/4/5/6/7) will open a command line prompt for you to use. You can perform the shutdown or reboot from that prompt.

In the future, it's better to show a link to this thread citing that you've read it, however post your own question in a new thread. The MINT version 2 years ago was different than 18.1 as it is today.

I don't know if the advice given here will help your problem: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...26769#p1229799

There seem to be a lot of problems with NVIDIA chips. One person also cited that they went to MINT MATE and the MATE desktop did not have these problems.

hello all. I just had this same problem this morning. I used my desktop yesterday and all was well. did not install any updates. turned it on this morning to have the same error. I'm running mint 17.3.
after not finding much help on the subject and none of the above help seemed to be causing my issue I tried a few things years of tinkering has taught me. I found that during boot since I have it dual booting with windows, I can choose boot mint with advanced options. here allows me to choose which kernels that are installed to run. I simply chose the previous kernel. and it booted successfully. so my advice is if you dual boot to try this. if not, you can uninstall the latest kernel in update manager. it will revert back to the previous kernel after restart.

I encountered the same problem just now when I tried to install Cinnamon 19.1 on an old computer. I wonder if this problem is related to NVIDIA graphics cards for my machine has a Radeon 7500 card. Any better ideas?