> I have been having this problem for a while now and it has seemed > random. All of a sudden I can't open any more programs, nothing > happens. If I try to open a program in a console I get something like: > > gedit > No protocol specified > Cannot open display: > Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line > options. > > I check the display variable and it looks fine. I finally narrowed it > down to something with networkmanager. I will be fine until I switch > networks in networkmanager. If networkmanager always stays on the > same network I am fine, but if I dare change networks I am then > forced to kill X and re-log back in to be able to open anything new. > > What is causing this? Has anyone else experienced it?
I found that the HOSTNAME variable was being reset to localhost.localdomain.com after networkmanager started up on my distro. I don't know where networkmanager was getting its information from on my distro so I simply added a HOSTNAME=$YOURHOSTNAME to my dhcpcd configuration file. On my distro its in /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
