On Wednesday 03 October 2007 10:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:17:44AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I have seen this for years but until now I just left it alone. I now need > > to be able to allow someone else to do some of the system updating & they > > are not as experienced as I so they are less likely to perceive this as > > simply a quirk. When I do an update or any other function from the > > xserver screen in KDE with any Debian system update app I get this > > message from the app: > > > > > > dpkg-preconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde > > debconf is set to use KDE as its frontend, which means it needs access > to the xserver, but the X environment is setup for whatever user > initiated this session. > > > debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) > > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog > > a sane fall back position. > > > Preconfiguring packages ... > > (Reading database ... 398019 files and directories currently installed.) > > > > It is a source of irritation to me. I tried switching the Xwrapper.config > > to "allowed_users=anybody" (against my better judgement) but that did not > > fix the problem. I do not run these as root but instead use the root > > password from the xserver screen when asked for it. > > well, which app specifically do you want this person to use? > > I would recommend that you > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf -plow YEP! That gets rid of the error messages, & that is what I was trying to avoid. > > to setup debconf for a console based front-end -- either dialog or > curses. > > the other option is to set up a proper X environment for root that > gets invoked when you run these apps. I don't know how to do this > without reading some manpages, but it involves preserving the users > environment when swithcing over to root's environment and is probably > not advised. You are correct-that is not an acceptable procedure (for me) Thanks for the help! > > A
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