Re: help: gnome won't run

[James Ramsey <jjramsey_6x9eq42 yahoo com>]

---Ambrose Kofi Laing <laing@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> I've installed GNOME1.0 from rpms, as described in the page at
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_rh.shtml#ftp
> 
> and it won't run.  I have already put 'exec gnome-session' into my
> .Xclients file.  Here's what happens: I get a hashed screen, which is
> what I always get when my X server starts (that is the same whether
> I'm running fvwm or kde).  Then it pauses there for a while and then
> shuts down.  The (error?) message I get on the console
> when X terminates is
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/koala:/tmp/.ICE-unix/27157,tcp/koala:13623
> Priority 00 : Starting    Id = default0
> Priority 00 : Cloning     Id = default0
> Priority 00 : Registering Id = (null)
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Does that give anyone an idea what might be wrong?  

Yup. I and *at least* a few others have had this problem. (It's
getting to be an epidemic. :-() The problem is with the /etc/hosts
file. My guess is that if you look at it, you'll see something like
this (probably on the first line):

127.0.0.1  localhost  localhost.localdomain

where localhost.localdomain is supposed to be your machine's name.
Judging from the error message, it looks like your machine's name is
koala, so the entry in /etc/hosts should be

127.0.0.1  localhost  koala

This should fix it. Mail back to gnome-list to let us know if it worked.

P.S. If this works, credit Tim Lewis, who had found the problem. If it
fails, blame me :).

Good luck.

==


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