Re: No more desktop.
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:02:44 +0100
Paul Isambert <zappathustra@free.fr> wrote:
> Quoting Richard <richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
> > 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
>
> Everything is fine now. I've just replaced Gnome with Xfce, because Gnome
> doesn't work well with wheezy for the moment.
>
> Paul
>
>
Strange Paul, I'm running gnome from wheezy/sid and its OK, nice and stable, so wheezy should be OK.
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com or richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk
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