https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1583

> > > I think these entries are missing in /etc/hosts :
> 
> 
> > > localhost.localdomain.
> 

> > Doing it in the install process would be *even* more broken. It should
> > be done in the network init scripts, so that an entry for 127.0.0.1 is
> > made for the output of hostname (which is what GNOME, and many other
> > things, look for). localhost.localdomain just happens to be the
> > default
> > hostname.
> 
> Which is wrong. The default hostname for 127.0.0.1 should be localhost.
> 
May be, but it would allow gnome to start up without complaining about
this entry missing !

Stef
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