Check your /etc/hosts file. Changing the line that read
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost to 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain fixed this problem for me. Whether or not this is the way is "should" work is beyond me. > kim marshall wrote: > > > I sent the following to mandrake.expert a couple of days ago and was > > advised there to forward this to cooker. > > > > Installation went well (beta 2). I am still getting use to the new > > look and feel of KDE 3. I know it is not much different but there > > are enough differences to slow me down. For instance by default > > Konquour, by default, does not show the Menu Bar when viewing the > > users home directory. It took me a bit to remember that "Ctrl M" > > would solve this issue. I never worked with out this in the past. > > > > At the moment there are two issues that are giving me the most trouble. > > > > 1) The Mandrake Configuration tool is not working well. It is very > > slow!! Some sections never seem to open at all. I can not get in to > > UserDrake from this tool and SMB shares never open. Several other > > areas seem to have problems too! > > > > 2) Trying to solve this problem using Swat I get the message: > > > > An error occurred while loading http://localhost:901/: > > > > Connection to host localhost is broken > > > > I can ping any box on my net including localhost but I cannot see them > > via Konquour. The network is up and functional. In fact I get the > > default Apache message at localhost and I can configure cups at > > localhost:631. I copied the smb.conf from my Mdk 8.2 install which > > was working flawlessly. I am sort of at a loss as to were to go from > > here. I have not tried Gnome yet to see if similar things occur there. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > OK .. I am even more confused now that I have more information. As I > say above swat is not functioning. It returns an error about localhost > being broken. But get this I can do swat indirectly through the webmin > utility. This seems very odd to me. Obviously they are both using > localhost just different ports. I even checked /etc/services and swat > is assigned to port 901 as is typical. So what gives?? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Regester Linux user #264340 > Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta2 - Kernel 2.4.18-22mdk > XFree86 4.2.0 - KDE 3.0.2 and Gnome 2.0 > > > > > > >
