Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

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.


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