Re: Gnome and WM

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    Christopher> A friend ran into a similar problem earlier this
    Christopher> week.  He claims that adding the name of the local
    Christopher> machine to your /etc/hosts file fixes the
    Christopher> problem. Apparently, mico checks to see if your
    Christopher> hostname, as returned by `hostname`, is in /etc/hosts
    Christopher> and croaks if it's not.

You might also want to check if your loopback interface is up
(something like "ifconfig lo up") and maybe even that you route to the
loopback network ("/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0").  I've had
problems due to those in the past.