Re: networkmanager causes gnome to not be able to open any programs

[Xamindar <junkxamindar gmail com>]

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
> 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
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