It turns out it was related to nouveau driver (ie to my graphic card, which
is bi-gpu). I could "make it work" for the time I installed proper nvidia
driver by adding "nomodeset" at the end of the kernel line each time I
started my computer. It seems the installation already has this option set,
explaining all the trouble I did not encounter on Live CD.

However, it still is a problem, as it completely forbids the desktop's use.
This "nomodeset" could be implanted in a semi-automatic way... just a
suggestion. Either when seeing the graphic card is not supported by nouveau
(means creating a database), or adding it to the grub for the next boot at
the time nouveau crashes (these are two kernel.log examples) :
"May 19 09:52:22 debian kernel: [   27.561689] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0:
PFIFO: unknown status 0x40000000
May 19 09:52:22 debian kernel: [   27.685372] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0:
PFIFO: read fault at 0x0008657000 [PAGE_SYSTEM_ONLY] from
PGRAPH/GPC3/(unknown enum 0x0000000b) on channel 0x0002060000
[...]
May 19 11:07:31 debian kernel: [   44.401798] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0:
PFIFO: read fault at 0x000811e000 [PAGE_SYSTEM_ONLY] from
PGRAPH/GPC3/(unknown enum 0x0000000b) on channel 0x0000a21000
May 19 11:07:31 debian kernel: [   44.401810] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0:
PFIFO: unknown status 0x40000000"


Then, maybe it would have been more relevant filing this bug report under
the "nouveau" package tag.
Cheers! Debian is working now :).

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