# Error: No executable profiles could be found

**URL:** <https://community.thinlinc.com/t/error-no-executable-profiles-could-be-found/40>\
**Category:** Knowledge Base\
**Tags:** desktop, linux, thinlinc\
**Created:** [3 December 2020 09:09 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/error-no-executable-profiles-could-be-found/40 "2020-12-03T09:09:56Z")\
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One common support issue we get is about the error message **“No executable profiles could be found”** that appears when trying to login to a ThinLinc session.

The most common cause of this is that a session cant start because no working desktop environment is installed on the system. Many Linux distributions are available as “minimal” installs, this could mean that a desktop isn’t included.

To check which desktop environments you have installed, you can run this command:

```
  ls /usr/share/xsessions

```

Examples of desktop environments are GNOME, XFCE, Mate, KDE and Cinnamon.

Note that if you run a ThinLinc cluster, only the Agents need to have working desktop environments.

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