desktop borked

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:28:02 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:

> Greetings list :-)
> 
> OS: Ubuntu Desktop 9.04
> 
> User tried to uninstall something, && when restarting, X starts up, but
> no desktop.
> 
> I've diff'ed xorg.conf with the backup, no changes there.
> 
> One slight clue is that networking also borked.
> 
> Any insight highly appreciated as always :)
> 
> Stu@

Because of dependency's, when you uninstall something many other things 
might uninstall too. There is a history in /var/log/apt/term.log and 
maybe in other places too. Try to reinstall some of the things that got 
uninstalled.

Aart