Re: New to Debian --Help, please

[Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au>]

Howdy,

* damar thapa <thapadamar@yahoo.com> [020809 18:51]:

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> debconf: DbDriver "configdb" error:
> /var/cache/debconf/conffig.dat is locked by another
> process

Sounds like dpkg might be hung and still be running somewhere... ps for it, 
then either find it (is it on one of the consoles?) or kill it.
> 
> dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): suprocess
> post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up xdm (4.1.0-16)..
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> x-window-system depends on xdm; however: Package xdm
> is not configured yet.
> 
> dpkg: error processing x-window-syst4em (--configure)
> depency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> Setting up jed-common ....
> 
> Errors were encoutered while processing:
> 
> gdm
> xdm
> x-window-system.

You don't need both gdm and xdm. So the first thing I would try is to
remove one of them and try again.

For example

apt-get remove --purge gdm

then try and get xdm to work

dpkg --configure --pending


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>  
> I only can guess that it only me be with the x
> configuration  (xdm and so on).
> 
> Can any one point me what did I do wrong? Are there
> any  documents on the net, covering both redhat and
> debian side by side?

I'm not sure if you did anything wrong.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Cheers,

Nick.

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