RE: gnome-session and psuedorandom X crashes.

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I just installed gnome on my brothers laptop yesterday. Gnome-session was
going scrazy on it. This was odd because I used the same stuff on 4 other
computers and didnt have any problems. After playing I found out what the
problem was. The computer was calling itself Ranma.intranet but
Ranma.intranet was not in dns or in the hosts file. So gnome-session was
telling other programs to connect to Ranma.intranet but the programs could
not connect since Ranma.intranet didnot exist. The solution: put your
computers name into the hosts file.

Maby this will help.
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marshal Wong [SMTP:mwong4@po-box.mcgill.ca]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 02, 1999 11:09 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	gnome-session and psuedorandom X crashes.
> 
> I know there have been a lot of repeated questions concerning
> gnome-session.  And there have been some answers which have helped.  So
> here are my 2 bits of a question.
> 
> I'm running RH5.2 with GNOME CVS (Feb 28 I think).  gnome-session never
> worked for me.
> With some helpful advice from the mailing list, I 755'd
> /usr/local/share, and it started working.
> 
> However, I've noticed that if I log on to the Internet (I'm working on a
> home computer) and then log off, the next program I open will send the X
> server into a crash.  There is a message saying that it can't find
> localhost.localdomain.  Now localhost.localdomain is definitely in my
> /etc/hosts file, so I don't know what is the problem.  I know that when
> I log on, my login shell scripts (ifup) changes my HOSTNAME environment
> variable.  But changing it back doesn't fix the problems.  So I'm at a
> loss.  If anyone knows way around this, I'd be happy.  I have similar
> problems with XDM, and I never managed so solve that either.
> 
> If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it, even if this is mildly off topic.
> 
> Marshal
> 
> 
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