Re: networkmanager causes gnome to not be able to open any programs
- From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- To: Izzy Condie <zeqadious gmail com>
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: networkmanager causes gnome to not be able to open any programs
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:17:53 -0400
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:38 -0400, Izzy Condie wrote:
> > I have been having this problem for a while now and it has seemed
> > random. All of a sudden I can't open any more programs, nothing
> > happens. If I try to open a program in a console I get something like:
> >
> > gedit
> > No protocol specified
> > Cannot open display:
> > Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line
> > options.
> >
> > I check the display variable and it looks fine. I finally narrowed it
> > down to something with networkmanager. I will be fine until I switch
> > networks in networkmanager. If networkmanager always stays on the
> > same network I am fine, but if I dare change networks I am then
> > forced to kill X and re-log back in to be able to open anything new.
> >
> > What is causing this? Has anyone else experienced it?
>
> I found that the HOSTNAME variable was being reset to
> localhost.localdomain.com after networkmanager started up on my
> distro. I don't know where networkmanager was getting its information
What is the contents of /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf?
It could well be that you either have an older snapshot, or your distro
hasn't configured it's system settings config correctly.
Dan
> from on my distro so I simply added a HOSTNAME=$YOURHOSTNAME to my
> dhcpcd configuration file. On my distro its in /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd
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