On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:37 -0700, Xamindar wrote: > > Dan Williams wrote: > > 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? > > There is no such file on my system, all I have is a > /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ directory. Is that the only location > it could be? > > > > It could well be that you either have an older snapshot, or your distro > > hasn't configured it's system settings config correctly. > I am using version 0.6.6
Ok, then everything I said does not apply. The Gentoo backend for NM 0.6.6 does change the hostname based on DHCP server response. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
