On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100 Paul Isambert <zappathus...@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 -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Debian Wheezy/Sid amd64 on a Dual core AMD Athlon 5200, 4 GB RAM Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W ( degs mins ) QRV HF + VHF Microwave 23 cms:140W,13 cms:100W,6 cms:10W & 3 cms:5W ################################################################################## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111125231914.18f0b...@g8jvm.com