Finally solved, at least for me.

Since the files for xbmc-bin seem to be missing in the repository, I used the brute force method. Copied the image on the SD-card and then merged in the changed files from the image of the broken SD-card where everything was installed.

Everything seems to work.

It seems that xbmc-bin has vanished.
On the other hand, „apt-cache show xbmc“ shows a lot of lines, as expected.

I tried dist-upgrade later ... 18 apt-get dist-upgrade During the xmas-holiday I installed this one (onto that memory card which crashed in the meanwhile) 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.zip Worked with that fine. But as I remember almost all packages got updated in the meanwhile and I tried to avoid tho...

Thats what I did, but I did login via ssh -- which should not be any difference.

Here the first lines of the bash history.

Hello! I got my Raspberry last xmas and was happy with it. I used it to watch YouTube with XBMC on my TV, so nothing really sophisticated :-) A few days ago the memory card crashed. Could be read without problems, but writing failed. Okay, bought a new one. No problem. Today I installed this new mem...