On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:38 -0400, Izzy Condie wrote: > > 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
What is the contents of /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf? It could well be that you either have an older snapshot, or your distro hasn't configured it's system settings config correctly. Dan > 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 _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
