I just tried to use CIX GO to upgrade my GPU driver, but it seems gnome will be uninstalled unexpectedly along with the CIX GO uninstallation:
Uninstall cix-go:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-atspi-2.0 gir1.2-gck-1 gir1.2-gcr-3 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-3.0
gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gir1.2-gweather-4.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-11 gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-nma-1.0 gir1.2-polkit-1.0
gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 gnome-session-common gstreamer1.0-pipewire libgdm1 libgnome-menu-3-0 libnma0 libwireplumber-0.4-0
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
policykit-1-gnome
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cix-gpu-umd cix-libglvnd cix-mesa gdm3 gnome-core gnome-session gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions task-gnome-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
policykit-1-gnome
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 9 to remove and 123 not upgraded.
Need to get 63.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.1 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
I believe this is the case that leads to my desktop broken, fortunately I managed to use the following workaround and reinstall/restore gnome desktop successfully:
(1) sudo apt-get install --allow-downgrades gdm3 gnome-core gnome-session gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions task-gnome-desktop gnome-shell-common=43.9-0+deb12u2
(2) choose “gdm” instead of “lightdm” during apt-get install.
Finally, I just run CIX GO install.sh to get GPU driver upgraded and reboot, everything looks fine to me!