After mistakenly installing gnome-desktop, dbus causing problems

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I was looking for a simple timer and after insufficient research and blithe inattention installed gnome-desktop-timer from the ubuntu repository. This installed what looked to be a completely new desktop, (including network-manager which assumed complete control of my network settings and made a mess of them).

So I purged and autoremoved to roll back but there are nasty little bits hanging on it seems.

Now I get complaints from inotify that my dbus request for notification can't start because I'm out of disk space -- but I have lots and lots of space.

So what happened and how can I fully rollback that nasty install? Can I just remove dbus and reinstall that? If I have to re-install Ubuntu MATE I can find time to do that, but would rather not.

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Hi

until you get a better reply....
look at /va/log/history.log or its compressed older logs
find that section where you installed gnome-desktop-timer and its dependencies

run
apt-get remove --purge packagename
against all new packages from that log
reboot and see if it resolves

if not then....try a force re-install of dbus

sudo apt --reinstall install dbus
SNIP
A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon

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Thanks yes. The meticulous purge -- executed with a snarl -- did the trick.

During which I discovered that the nastiness was not dbus as I'd thought at first, but ibus. Once that was gone my *bus errors went away.

Anyway... clear skies. For now.