Hi, I am a newbie using debian unstable. A volatile combination, no doubt. Whenever I 'apt-get install foo' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade', the procedure works but prints lots of GTK and debconf/Gnome warning messages as follows:
Setting up toshset (1.58-3) ... Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog The packages _do_ install fine, but apparently many of them would prefer to use a Gnome/GTK method to be configured. I have never run Gnome on this machine, but I believe it is installed (I did 'apt-get install gnome' successfully). I always do the upgrades as root, and root's environment has DISPLAY=:0 which seems fine to me, but perhaps it should be set to something else? I am _running_ on DISPAY :0.0, and I'm not doing anything fancy that I'm aware of. Any hints on how to get rid of these warning messages? Is there a permission I need to set somewhere? xhost? Thanks, Charlie -- Charlie Zender, zender at uci dot edu, (949) 824-2987, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
