On Friday 01 February 2008 00:47:12 Allen wrote: > Now, this wouldn't work for some reason or another, but the system > seemed to be doing just fine. I did uname -a and sure enough I had > 6.3 Stable going. However, when typing kdm to load up that so I can > use a gui, it no longer loads, at all, it pops up for a split second to > just stop totally, and then gives me a message about the hostname. > > I thought it was odd, and XDM actually loads, but won't load X > itself as it too goes out with errors about hostname.
So the hostname isn't set, the clue would be that machine presents itself as "amnesia". Check /etc/rc.conf so see if you set a hostname or if you use DHCP, check if the dhcp server gives you one. How this got lost in the upgrade, I don't know. mergemaster doesn't touch /etc/rc.conf, only /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > I've been looking on FreeBSD.org but I don't fnid anything about this, > but when did FreeBSD go from .tgz files to .tbz? I'm just wondering > what happened as I thought it was atypo at first and realized every > one of my books said .tbz and so did my screen heh. When libbz2 was brought into the base system, don't recall when exactly, somewhere around 5.0 I guess. tgz use gzip compression, tbz use bzip2 compression, which generally compresses better, but uses more CPU-time. FreeBSD can still read both though, it's just a change of default. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"