Re: No more desktop.
Quoting Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: 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 Everything is fine now. I've just replaced Gnome with Xfce, because Gnome doesn't work well with wheezy for the moment. Paul -- 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/1322294564.4ed09d24e3...@imp.free.fr
Re: No more desktop.
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:02:44 +0100 Paul Isambert zappathus...@free.fr wrote: Quoting Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: 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 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. -- 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/2026095558.1db42...@g8jvm.com
Re: No more desktop.
Quoting Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:02:44 +0100 Paul Isambert zappathus...@free.fr wrote: Quoting Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: 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 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. Gnome told me on startup that it would run in restricted mode, probably because my video card didn't support it (or so I remember). But I'm quite happy with Xfce, so I don't mind! Paul -- 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/1322302275.4ed0bb4387...@imp.free.fr
Re: No more desktop.
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:11:15 +0100 Paul Isambert zappathus...@free.fr wrote: Quoting Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:02:44 +0100 Paul Isambert zappathus...@free.fr wrote: Quoting Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: 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 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. Gnome told me on startup that it would run in restricted mode, probably because my video card didn't support it (or so I remember). But I'm quite happy with Xfce, so I don't mind! Paul OK Paul, its probably not the sound card but the driver causing that. And I'm getting pretty sure its the way Debian does things. Other distros using gnome3 start in standard mode OK. If its an ATI card hang fire as the Radeon driver runs badly. -- 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/2026122513.6b575...@g8jvm.com
No more desktop.
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? Thanks in advance, Paul -- 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/4ecf7ff8.10...@free.fr
Re: No more desktop.
Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : snip I launched synaptic safe-upgrade, snip Sorry, that was aptitude safe-upgrade Paul -- 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/4ecf809b.5080...@free.fr
Re: No more desktop.
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 -- 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/4ecfb7e2.9000...@free.fr
Re: No more desktop.
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/2025231914.18f0b...@g8jvm.com
