On 11 Nov 2001, Kevin Jones wrote:

> I'm running RedHat 7.2 on a Dell Latitude laptop with a Xircom Dual
> Eth/Modem card. Occasionally when I start up, I get dumped into a
> console instead of my usual X login screen. I can login and do a startx
> and I get an X Session. The problem seems to be that my machine thinks
> it's DNS name is 'dhcppc1' (when things work OK it thinks it's
> 'localhost')

Oh, yeah... if your hostname is localhost, and your network comes up on 
boot, then your hostname will change.  Set your own hostname, and add it 
to the hosts file.

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        I'd have one dollar. - Squidward to SpongeBob



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