On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:01 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > Somehow, running drakconnect changes a setting somewhere, that I cannot (or > have not been able to) find, that breaks localhost resolution. You'll note > that an entry has been made to /etc/hosts for the hostname I chose when I > ran drakconnect, yet that name has not been set. Could this be causing the > GNOME problem. The ip address assigned to this machine has one name in > /etc/hosts, yet the machine hostname is different (dhcppc5). Hold > on.......... > > I edited /etc/hosts and rebooted. Nope, GNOME still pukes. > > Anything specific you want tested more I'll have to do after work tonight, > so let me know.
I just added an entry to /etc/hosts so it looks like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.5 dhcppc5 GNOME now starts without error. So GNOME is definitely looking at teh /etc/hosts file for resolution, while the problems with host`localhost` not resolving are coming from somewhere else. Why wouldn;t GNOME have a problem with default settings before drakconnect is run. Am I dense by missing something obvious? -- Greg
