Hi all, SteveK surmised
"run 'dpkg -P diald' as root. It looks to be in a fairly bad state, so you have to do evil things." (edited) Shows how much I know, I get the GUI up and think everythings great! Error message time . foo:/# dpkg -P diald (Reading database ... 81306 files and directories currently installed.) Removing diald ... Stopping diald: fifo-removed diald. dpkg - warning: while removing diald, directory `/var/cache/diald' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing diald, directory `/etc/diald' not empty so not removed. Purging configuration files for diald ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome-perl installed?) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog dpkg-reconfigure debconf worked! I addded deb http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa I tried, malformed line. deb http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/ W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org ./ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7estevek_alsa_._Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.debian.org ./ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7estevek_alsa_._Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) Regards Mick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
