Re: help: gnome won't run

[Tim Lewis <talewis worldnet att net>]

Hello James,
Thanks for the kind note of credit, but I was illuminated by a fellow
named Owen as to the nature of the gnome-session problem (I believe he
is a session developer).  Just thought I would clear that up...

Tim Lewis



James Ramsey wrote:
> 
> ---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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