Re: Installation problem

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:

> I'm trying to install GNOME under Red Hat 5.2. I've followed the
> instructions at <URI:http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_rh.shtml>. Now, when
> I attempt to run gnome-session, I get the following output to the console:
> 
> iceauth:  creating new authority file /home/braden/.ICEauthority
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/boneone.endoframe:/tmp/.ICE-unix/920,tcp/boneone.endof
> rame:2822
> Priority 00 : Starting    Id = default0
> Priority 00 : Cloning     Id = default0
> Priority 00 : Registering Id = (null)
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 923, errno = 2
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.

This should go into the FAQ if it isn't there already.  Try a ping `uname
-n` and if it fails, change your /etc/hosts file to something appropriate
for the loopback device (127.0.0.1).

Regards,
Marcus Brubaker
spoon@elpaso.net
http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon

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