Hello, thanks for your reply. This is what I suspected, but I don't use NM and don't recall that any of my networks try to set my hostname (I connect only to a dorm network, and eduroam, sometimes some dnsmasq driven lan).
I have no idea who tries to set my hostname and will investigate it (it really seems that setting my hostname to empty string is the cause, but still I don't know why. One idea is that something is corrupting my memory (I would point at i915 driver, but don't really have time for debugging). Regards Ladislav Laska S pozdravem Ladislav Laska --- xmpp/jabber: [email protected] 2010/11/1 Carlos Laué <[email protected]>: > Hello, > >> I've recently stumbled onto a problem, possibly with kde3. >> >> After some time (and I think this happens after resuming from RAM), >> new terminals (even text ones) have empty hostname, I can't run any X >> apps (cannot connect to X server :0.0), kde tells me "KDEInit could >> not launch 'anything'", and in .xsession-errors appears: >> ... > > I've seen a problem like this when I've installed networkmanager, and > connected to a network that tried to set my hostname (a 3g connection). When > it set the hostname I had no other way of getting back control of X / KDE3 > than restarting the X server. I've solved it by adding two lines into > /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf: > > [keyfile] > hostname=myhostname > > if you don't use networkmanager, there must be some option to pass to your > DHCP client so it doesn't overwrite your hostname... I don't think this is > kde3 related (cannot connect to X server :0.0), but I might be wrong, never > tried it on other DE's. > > Regards, > > Carlos Laué >
