On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:14 am, Jaco Greeff wrote: > On 06 Mar 2003 14:49:27 +0100, Teletchéa Stéphane > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > I think these entries are missing in /etc/hosts : > > > localhost.localdomain. > > <snip> > > > > Unless this line, gnome fails to load correctly. > > > > > > I did a fresh install everytime, so it is missing in the install > > > process ... > > > > Problem solved in rc2 !!! > > Is the GNOME problem fixed or do the entries appear in /etc/hosts. In my > experience on RC2 as soon as you go through the DrakConnect dialogs, > (DHCP machine) the /etc/hosts file gets rewritten as "127.0.0.1 localhost", > the entry is not there. > The entry is not there before you run drakconeect either, but somehow (TMDNS perhaps) GNOME is able to resolve the local host on a clean istall when you don't touch the netowrk settings. Running drakconnect breaks localhost resolution for GNOME. From what I understand, editing /etc/hosts and adding locvalhost.localdomain is not a fix for the bug, but a hack to make it work, although I have not seen anybody propse a different solution (I don't even know if there is agreement on what the problem is) and I have looked very exhaustively for the source of the problem with no luck (or perhaps with no skill).
-- Greg
