It sounds like there is a lot going on there... Wish I could help more (but I honestly don't have a solid handle on what all you have going on, (overwhelming)...
that said, maybe running multiple pi's is the answer??? if you can get your octoprint setup working again in isolation, that seems like a good thing to do, (perhaps you have an old backup that you can recover and get up and running with)...
that simply would leave the other pi for whatever other use you are going for... I've never heard of raspberry pi os "raspbian" not coming up with a browser (world icon) if you are running the desktop version.
My advice for your second machine/pi would be to load up a fresh/clean copy of raspberry pi os, make sure you can get on the wifi and browse the web.
hope this helps... Good luck... I'm a computer programmer, and I find setting up new machines or dealing with filesystem corruption of some kind to be one of the most frustrating activities as well... (I have to solve a whole bunch of already solved problems all over again for what seems like no good reason, and it keeps me from working on the stuff I actually care about... pure frustration). So you have my sympathies.
(edit: I've also broken machines by installing "experimental" software... In the spirit of "if it ain't broke don't fix it"... have a couple of spare sd cards lying around (or spare pi's if you can afford it), and when you are doing experimental stuff, use a burner sdcard or pi that way you don't put at risk your other stable projects/stuff)... My problem is I always remember this after I've well and truly borked myself and have no choice)
that said, maybe running multiple pi's is the answer??? if you can get your octoprint setup working again in isolation, that seems like a good thing to do, (perhaps you have an old backup that you can recover and get up and running with)...
that simply would leave the other pi for whatever other use you are going for... I've never heard of raspberry pi os "raspbian" not coming up with a browser (world icon) if you are running the desktop version.
My advice for your second machine/pi would be to load up a fresh/clean copy of raspberry pi os, make sure you can get on the wifi and browse the web.
hope this helps... Good luck... I'm a computer programmer, and I find setting up new machines or dealing with filesystem corruption of some kind to be one of the most frustrating activities as well... (I have to solve a whole bunch of already solved problems all over again for what seems like no good reason, and it keeps me from working on the stuff I actually care about... pure frustration). So you have my sympathies.
(edit: I've also broken machines by installing "experimental" software... In the spirit of "if it ain't broke don't fix it"... have a couple of spare sd cards lying around (or spare pi's if you can afford it), and when you are doing experimental stuff, use a burner sdcard or pi that way you don't put at risk your other stable projects/stuff)... My problem is I always remember this after I've well and truly borked myself and have no choice)
Statistics: Posted by pfharlock — Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:42 pm