Re: GTK/debconf/Gnome warnings with apt-get install
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:25, Charlie Zender wrote:
> 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
It happens because you chose to use frontend, gnome for debconf, and for
one or another reason, it doesn't work properly. Therefore dialog is
used to replace it.
To get rid of the messages, though, use dpkg-reconfigure debconf to
choose the one that works for your system (e.g. dialog).
--
Yuhanes Tjandra <yuhanes@arcor.de>
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