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06-14-2004, 01:58 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
Posts: 834
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Sarge Debian and X = issues
How can I get sarge running X on an pretty much fresh system? I've tried myself and ended up getting a handful of errors ... 
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06-14-2004, 02:01 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Devon, UK
Distribution: Debian Etc/kernel 2.6.18-4K7
Posts: 2,380
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Please could you tell us what the errors are.
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06-14-2004, 03:02 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
Posts: 834
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After I type startx:
hostname: hostname lookup failure
Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth (argv):1: bad display name "blue:0" in "list" command
Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth (stdin):1: bad display name "blue:0" in "add" command
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot execute: No such file or directory
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "blue:0" in "remove" command
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06-14-2004, 05:37 AM
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#4
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2004
Location: Mumbai, India
Distribution: Debian, Sarge
Posts: 8
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Login as root and run
tasksel
select Desktop environment
If you installed Debian from net, it will download the packages and install X. If installed from CD, insert CD.
select Finish
run startx if does not start
run
/usr/bin/X11/xf86config
follow the instructions and do a startx
try a reboot
Last edited by atmguy; 06-14-2004 at 05:40 AM.
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06-14-2004, 09:05 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
Posts: 834
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tasksel does not list Desktop Enbironment as one of its options ... 
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06-14-2004, 09:18 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Posts: 1,597
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Do you have the "x-window-system" package installed?
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06-14-2004, 09:37 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
Posts: 834
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It's not listed as a package 
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06-14-2004, 09:55 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Posts: 1,597
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If your network connection is configured and your /etc/apt/sources.list is OK (you can set up the sources.list with "apt-setup"), you can install new packages by downloading them via network. Aptitude is a nice frontend for apt-get.
In order to get X up and going you need to install the "x-window-system" package and an X environment (fluxbox, windowmaker, kde, or gnome).
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06-15-2004, 01:36 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
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My network isn't even working I think. I have a USB and PCMCIA network cards. The PCMCIA one flashes it's lights when inserted, indicating that it's not ready, but the USB one seems to function ok on the outside. However, when I try to use the network through the USB NIC, it doesn't function properly. What I'll probably end up doing is downloading the deb file and burning it to the multisession CD I have with some other linux stuff, then mounting it and installing from there. I bet it's gonna have some dependencies though ... but hey, I'll give it a shot. I think I'm gonna leave the NIC problems in another thread.
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06-15-2004, 02:22 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
Posts: 834
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Where can I obtain the x-window-system package?
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06-15-2004, 03:02 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2004
Location: Mumbai, India
Distribution: Debian, Sarge
Posts: 8
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To: Orange400 - "tasksel does not list Desktop Environment as one of its options ..."
If tasksel does not list desktop env, then it is possible that it has tried to install it sometime back and crashed, but it has marked the task "Desktop" as installed.
run
tasksel -n install desktop
run "tasksel --help" for more options
Even I had faced the same problem, then i was a novice and had restarted the whole installation process. But you are lucky.
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06-15-2004, 03:16 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
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When I try tasksel -n install desktop, it says E: desktop: no such task.
I'm starting to think that the X window system is on the 2nd cd or something ...
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06-15-2004, 03:19 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Europe:Salzburg Austria USA:Orlando,Florida;
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 643
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Quote:
Originally posted by orange400
When I try tasksel -n install desktop, it says E: desktop: no such task.
I'm starting to think that the X window system is on the 2nd cd or something ...
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apt-get install x-window-system
make sure /etc/apt/sources.list contains an entry that points to your cd
apt-setup
Last edited by utanja; 06-15-2004 at 03:20 AM.
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06-15-2004, 04:11 AM
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#14
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Posts: 1,597
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Provided you have Sarge installation CD(s) that contain(s) more stuff than just the base system, the solution that utanja suggested seems optimal. However, if you installed Sarge from the beta installer (110 MB CD image) that only contains the base system (and nothing else), then I suggest you try to get your network connection working.
You see, the "x-window-system" is a "meta-package" that installs lots of other packages, so downloading them separately might prove out to be a quite difficult task. That's the beauty of apt-get -- it automatically downloads and installs all the packages that are marked as dependencies. But you need a working network connection (or a set of installation CDs) to use this dependency-resolving feature of apt-get.
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06-16-2004, 02:37 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
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Right. I use apt-get a lot for this kind of stuff. I just haven't been doing it this time because the network wasn't working. I'm gonna get the second CD and see what I can do with it. Guess how? Through DSL Live CD, mounting hda1 and using jigdo 
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