Re: X won't start
At sometime around 14:23:46 -0400 on 6/14/02, Josh Huber wrote thus:
Marc Stergionis <stermarc@mac.com> writes:
OR is there a way to get apt-get or dselect to force a
firewall-password prompt?
Oh! You're using an http-proxy? I'm sorry, perhaps I missed that
fact from the start of the thread.
You'll need to setup http proxy settings. In /etc/apt/apt.conf you
should put something like:
Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "http://user:password@http.proxy.address";;;
Or, just to test (without editing that file) you can set the
"http_proxy" environment variable to that same value. The environment
variable will override the settings in apt.conf, btw.
I tried doing that and got errors. Not sure what to put in as "proxy.address"
What I put in was exactly:
Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "http://MyUserName:MyPassword@http.proxy.e.benefis.org";;;
where e.benefis.org is our domain
alternatively, after running lynx to password through the firewall, I
was able to get apt-get update to run and upgraded to woody (Debian3
shows on bootup)
Then when I asked for startx
I got
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot
execute: No such file or directory giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit No such process (errno 3): Server error.
Not sure what I need to install to overcome this?
Thanks.
-ms
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