On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:17:44AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I have seen this for years but until now I just left it alone. I now need to > be able to allow someone else to do some of the system updating & they are > not as experienced as I so they are less likely to perceive this as simply a > quirk. When I do an update or any other function from the xserver screen in > KDE with any Debian system update app I get this message from the app: > > > dpkg-preconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde > debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 398019 files and directories currently installed.) > > It is a source of irritation to me. I tried switching the Xwrapper.config > to "allowed_users=anybody" (against my better judgement) but that did not fix > the problem. I do not run these as root but instead use the root password > from the xserver screen when asked for it. > Any other suggestions?
Don't do an update from within Etch. Go to a VC, login, and do it from there. Especially if you're having someone less experienced do it. What happens when X needs updating and they don't know any better than to do it from within X... Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
