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

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