Re: First Time - Need Help

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    cal> ** ERROR **: Could not communicate with the panel

    cal> then eventually the job dies with

    cal>   [1]+ Aborted (core dumped) panel

That's a common one.  It usually means that your local networking is
not set up correctly.  See if you can "ping localhost" even when you
are not hooked up to a network.

If the ping also fails, try these two lines as root:

ifconfig lo up
route add -net 127.0.0.0

or something on those lines.