Re: Gnome is very slow

["Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Middleditch" <elanthis awesomeplay com>
To: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 18:34
Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow


> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 18:07 -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Sean Middleditch" <elanthis awesomeplay com>
>
> > > As has been said before, this is likely a network error.  GNOME
requires
> > > you not to have a broken network setup.  Make sure your machine's
> > > hostname is resolvable.
> > >
> >
> > Ok this is a problem.  My machine's hostname is localhost now I could
change
> > that but I dont have a domaine.  My ISP has a domaine I use them.  Do I
put
> > in my email address as a resolvable hostname?
>
> localhost is just fine.  does it resolve properly?  i.e., if you type
> in:
> ping localhost
> does it work alright, even when you're not online?

I loged into KDE>Linux Console
issued ping localhost
64 Bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) icmp_seq(1-101) ttl=64
time=(0.26-0.29)ms
Apparantly OK.  First time for me looks OK.

Regards;
Hoyt