Re: Got GNOME to start by changing /etc/hosts file

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

So you're saying that in order to start you had to set the line in
/etc/hosts to this:

127.0.0.1	localhost	tlewis

?

I think the point is that the last item shouldn't be the fully qualified
domain name so in your case it should look (something) like this:

127.0.0.1	localhost	jjlinux

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, James Ramsey wrote:

> I wasn't able to get GNOME to load. Instead it had died with the
> following error message:
> 
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/jjlinux.jwramsey:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4092,tcp/jjlinux
>    .jwramsey:10785
> 
>    Priority 00: Starting Id = default0
>    Priority 00: Cloning Id = default0
>    Priority 00: Registering Id = (null)
> 
> I saw an error message like this in the thread "problems getting it to
> load".
> 
> Tim Lewis wrote in that thread:
> 
> >Edit your /etc/hosts file and all your machine name to
> >the localhost line:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost <my_machine_name>
> 
> Mine looks like this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost tlewis
> 
> That should fix it ...
> 
> Well, it fixed it. The first line of my /etc/hosts file says
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost jjlinux.jwramsey
> 
> Thank you, Mr. Lewis.
> 
> 
> 
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Marcus Brubaker
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