Don't trust Gnome here. Nor KDE for that matter. Go directly into the configuration file, with a text editor preferable, and do the work there.
Do you run a DNS server? I had the same problem and eventually I had to disable the sendmail process at boot. One reason it hangs I've been told is that it looks for a DNS server and cannot find it. Hence I don't run/use a DNS server I figured I don't need a sendmail server anyway. I'm in the process of upgrading to FC5 myself, too many discrepancies between the front end and the back end in FC4. BTW how fast is the Network Admin tool saving the configuration on your box? Adrian On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:54 +1200, Andrew Packer wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:07 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:58, Andrew Packer wrote: > > > /etc/hosts looks like this: > > > > > > ABC.DEF.1.3 marian > > > ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew > > > 127.0.0.1 logcabin localhost > > > > > > (Sorry to be coy with the ABC.DEF, but I don't know whether it > > > is > > > considered bad form to post one's internal network addresses on > > > a public forum.) Logcabin's non-loopback address is > > > ABC.DEF.1.4. > > > > Could you tell us what happens if you change /etc/hosts to:- > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew > > ABC.DEF.1.3 marian > > ABC.DEF.1.4 logcabin > > > > I think that that will fix your problem. > > > > Sorry, I left something out that I had put into my original message > (that the list server bounced because I sent it from the wrong account). > I had actually done almost what you've suggested: given the name > logcabin and the alias localhost to both 127.0.0.1 and ABC.DEF.1.4. Or > I had tried. Each time I added the 127.0.0.1 line, the ABC.DEF.1.4 line > disappeared, and vice-versa. > > I just gave it another stab, calling 127.0.0.1 localhost and ABC.DEF.1.4 > logcabin, but the Gnome Network Administration Tool > (system-config-network) wouldn't retain more than three lines. I > hand-edited the /etc/hosts file with 127.0.0.1 as localhost and > ABC.DEF.1.4 as logcabin, rebooted: same hangup. I changed the 127.0.0.1 > line to read 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost, rebooted: same > hangup. I've made sure the 127.0.0.1 line is the first line > in /etc/hosts. > > I note that what the Gnome Network Admin. Tool reports in its Hosts tab > doesn't agree with /etc/hosts (and /etc/hosts is not being changed by > the system), so from where is the GNAT getting its information? And why > should a dodgy GUI tool matter anyway? > > (At this point my brain is threatening industrial action, so I'll look > at the machine again in the morning.) Thank you for the assistance. > > =====Andrew > > >
