This happened to me simply by upgrading from Precise LTS to Trusty LTS
on two independent machines and then purging residual config of left-
over packages from Precise.

Reinstalling/reconfiguring xserver-xorg-lts-trusty fixed the problem.
This bug is high impact and hard to debug for an average user, though.

What about hacking the postrm scripts of conflicting packages to check
whether a package that holds on to /etc/X11/X is still installed and
fixing the issue there? Not a beautiful solution but better than leaving
users without X after an upgrade...

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Title:
  Xorg fails to start after installing the hardware enablement stack on
  precise due to missing symlink after purging old xserver-xorg

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