[ale] frontend: Dialog ?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 12:27:45 EDT 2007


That looks rather hosed. When you first open your terminal emulator
type `xhost +root`. Then assume root and do the reconfigure. That
should get you working.

I've never understood why they offer an X frontend for dpkg.

On 10/8/07, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Mon October 8 2007 9:28 am, James Sumners wrote:
> > In short, it's what dpkg uses to prompt you for configuration inputs.
> > I imagine you have dpkg configured to use the X frontend. Try
> > `dpkg-reconfigure dpkg`.
>
> 0# dpkg-reconfigure dpkg
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories: No such file or directory
> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories: No such file or directory
> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories: No such file or directory
> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories: No such file or directory
> paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Movies/Night.Moves.0#
>
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