On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:57:15PM -0600, Luis Hidalgo wrote: > I'm having some serious problems with the upgrade. I've followed the > instructions found here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes and I have a "full > desktop system". > The message Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54, <> line 1. > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome > debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
Considering that X changes to Xorg, I wouldn't consider it wise to have debconf configured to use an X front-end. > > #ifup eth0 it says "Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0" > which was correctly configured earlier. The file > /etc/network/interfaces is exactly as before, wlan0 seems to work, but I > have no wireless internet around here. Please advice, > and suggest what to post. > Never used wireless so don't know. I don't suppose that you have a spare computer that can do wireless that you can connect to using standard ethernet or something? > If someone could also tell me how to read what comes after some dialogs > (questions y/n) (slow it down) it would be greatly appreciated, because > I can't tee it to a file, since the dialog is in the middle. I can't use > less/more for the same reason. What about reconfiguring debconf to use readline instead of dialog? That plus a serial console generally solves most such problems. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
