Re: No more desktop.
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100
Paul Isambert <zappathustra@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit :
> > Hello there again,
> >
> > I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi
> > work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution.
> >
> > Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me
> > there were tons of things to do, which I did, except it broke here and
> > there (on thing was that dialog [box, I suppose] was impossible
> > because TERM was not set, and indeed the details of progress appeared
> > in command-line style); update was cancelled. I started again, it
> > apparently progressed a little bit more, but still failed. I can't
> > remembered exactly what happened, but some things were related to Gnome.
> >
> > Anyway, gVim was installed, but I'd lost e.g. NetworkManager in the
> > taskbar (although I still had an internet connection), so I thought
> > rebooting might be good. Alas, after rebooting, I had no desktop
> > anymore, simply the commandline. I updated Gnome, just in case, but
> > still no desktop. I launched "synaptic safe-upgrade", which did a lot
> > of things, but didn't gave me the desktop back, even after reboot.
> >
> > So, what have I done wrong again?
>
> "startx" was the solution (I could have searched the web *before* asking
> here). Sorry for the noise.
> Paul
>
>
Hi
you could try deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
if there is corruption there, deleting it will force xconfig.
just a guess HTH
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com or richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk
nil carborundum a illegitemis
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