On 2008-11-21, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 2008-11-21, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > Result of startx &> xlog; cat xlog :
> >> > hostname: Host name lookup failure
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how much this may help you problem. But have you made
> >> changes to your /etc/hosts file recently. You might post the first
> >> line of it here.
> > First line:
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> >
> > Note: this is the first line on both the computer currently running
> > KDE 4 and the one failing to run KDE 4.
>
>
> Do the contents of /etc/conf.d/hostname
> and /etc/conf.d/domainname
>
> have similar kind of information on both machines?.
>
> I once had quite a lot of trouble with sendmail and a helpful poster
> here told me to fix /etc/hosts like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 reader.local.lan reader localhost
> 192.168.0.4 reader.local.lan reader
> [...]
>
> The advice pertained to the first line above. The second was my own
> addition.
>
> Below is a note from my hosts file showing the origin of the tip.
>
> # From: Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # Subject: Re: Why does sendmail think its hosts name is `localhost'
> # Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
> # Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:37:08 +0100
> # Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # [HP 02/07/06 02:37 Trying a tip from Heinz Sporn - switching
> ## 127.0.0.1 localhost reader to
> ## 127.0.0.1 reader localhost .. I think he's on to
> ## something... we'll see.]
> # 127.0.0.1 localhost reader
>
> I haven't had a host lookup issue for quite a long time as you can see
> by the date in the post.
>
> But this may not be very helpful for your current problem. However
> host lookup trouble can be quite hard to diagnose.
Host lookup has nothing to do with this.
Last time I checked, kde doesn't do anything with dnsdomainname.
Also, I don't even have /etc/{init.d,conf.d}/domainname .
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Andrey Vul
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