<quote who="peter bay-jespersen">
> I'm a newbie; I attended the slug meeting last night (28th June) and
> someone gave a talk re gnome 2.0 -- i'm sorry his name slipped by me. I
> told him about this error msg i keep getting when i startx (gnome) and
> he advised to post to here & he would advise what to do.
That'd be me. ;-)
> "Coul;d not look up internet address for C5023568.optushome.com.au [ie
> my computer] This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may
> be possible to correct the problem to the file /etc/hosts."
Okay, I've snipped your other two points, as this has nothing to do with
your internet connection. GNOME is just making a guess as to what your
hostname should be. You'll need to make sure your /etc/hosts file looks
something like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 pants.example.com pants
(The second line is your local ip address, hostname + local domain name and
hostname. You can put those on the top line if you don't have a local
network address.)
- Jeff
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2217..." - Paul Haddon
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