Blank user accounts selection login screen (not the black ttyl login screen)

ubuntu version: 22.04.3

I had no audio in my Ubuntu desktop, so I was trying to fix the issue by Google searching possible solutions and did the following :

1. Removed and reinstalled alsa
2. Removed and reinstalled pipewire

Turns out gdm3 and ubuntu-desktop (among others) was a dependency and were removed along with those packages.

Things I've tried:

• sudo apt update
• sudo apt dist-upgrade
• purged and reinstalled gdm3, gnome, ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop-minimal
• purged and reinstalled pipewire.
• reinstalled jammy version of all the dependent packages to pipewire. sudo apt instal --reinstall gdm3/jammy ubuntu-desktop/jammy gnome/jammy gnome-... etc.

After reboot still get a blank gray screen which is the user accounts selection login screen but there is no user accounts visible, I can move the mouse around and that's it.

Switched to terminal screen with CTRL+ALT+F5 and then I restarted gdm3 which takes me back to the accounts login screen but I still don't see any user accounts, it's just a blank gray screen. I can move mouse the cursor around.