Ah ha!
Did you have an existing user account that you left on the disk from a
previous install?
Probably a new user-id was assigned this time.
Try doing this (assuming that the username is "tom"):
chown -R tom.tom /home/tom
This will make the directory match the userid from the current install.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| I'm not sure - I'm still new to linux and I played
| around with a bunch of stuff in it. The only
| networking settings I played with were within kppp -
| just entering my dns #'s for my isp.
|
| My work around for now was creating a new user and
| using that account - just wish I had some idea what
| would cause that.
|
| --- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Sounds like something is amiss in your network
| > configuration and the X
| > display manager is having difficulty with the
| > DISPLAY variable. Unusual.
| > Have you been modifying your network or user config
| > files??
| >
| > Tom
| >
| > Brent Pathakis wrote:
| > >
| > > Hi all,
| > >
| > > Question. I'm having a strange proble with x. I
| > can
| > > start it all right when I log in as root. when I
| > log
| > > in using a user account, I get the error:
| > > hostname not found
| > > I hit ctrl - c twice, and then it boots ok.
| > >
| > > Anybody else heard of this?
| > >
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