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marcia - 27.06.2006, 19:56 Uhr
Titel: Synaptic and torrent downloads not working

Dear All,

For some reason synaptic will not download or install anything for me right now. Ktorrent just stalls out, too. I can use the internet just fine, though.

Oddly, I just downloaded google earth for linux and when I tried to run it I got an xserver error something like x:0 was refused.

This is all strange to me and is it all related somehow?

Mainly I would love to know how to fix it.

I have kde 3.5.2, and kernel 2.6.15.6-kanotix-1, 500 gigs of harddrive, 1 gig of ram, etc.

I know there is a simple fix for the xserver error, but I totally forgot it. The no downloading from synaptic or torrent is a new problem.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Marcia

mzilikazi - 27.06.2006, 22:27 Uhr
Titel: Re: Synaptic and torrent downloads not working

marcia hat folgendes geschrieben::

Oddly, I just downloaded google earth for linux and when I tried to run it I got an xserver error something like x:0 was refused.

Sounds like you are trying to run googleearth as root? Try as user.

You must run Synaptic as root. So, in a shell:

Code:

$ sux 

# synaptic

If that's already how you are running Synaptic and it's still not working perhaps you are behind a proxy?

Does apt-get work?

Code:

su

apt-get update

Afterall Synaptic is only a frontend for apt.

Sorry, but I don't use bittorrent/ktorrent.

marcia - 28.06.2006, 00:19 Uhr
Titel:

Thank you very much for your reply. It somewhat fixed itself, synaptic that is. It was not a problem with synaptic. When I did apt-get update in the console I found out that the debian.org unstable repository was not working, but others were. I just shut down the computer and came back later and voila now it is working. I have not tried the ktorrent yet.

The xserver problem was resolved by editing the /etc/kde3/kdm/xserver file-adding -ac to the x:0 line. I found this fix and it seems to have worked.

Thanks for the suggestions. I do not know what the problem was from, but at least synaptic is working fine again.

Thanks very much.

Sincerely,

Marcia Stanton