On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:31, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it loads; > > Could not look up internet address for (my computer name used to log > onto attbi's cable network). This will prevent GNOME from operating > correctly. It may be possible to correct this by adding (my computers > name) to the file /etc/hosts. > > It then gives me two choices "login anyway" and "Try again". I choose > "Login anyway" and Gnome loads fine and everything seems to work just > fine. > > None of the others do this. Anyone know what GNOME's hangup is here? If > I added that to the hosts file would it mess up the rest of them? > > Thanks
I believe (from reading through the Gnome2 BS...) that it's something to do with the VFS that Gnome2 uses and it's tie to proxy-ing...strange, since Gnome 1.4 was happy no matter what IP you used - or changed to - but with Gnome2, I've tested several times and actually "broke" Gnome2 by changing IP's and also when going from a static IP to a DHCP leased IP...still no fix in site yet...as per the Gnome2 lists...rather sucks because it will eventually cause the performance of Gnome2 to degrade to such a point of taking upwards of 3-4 minutes for the damn desktop to even load - then another 2 minutes for the damn wm to load...I guess KDE's looking better all the time... -- Mon Jan 20 17:40:01 EST 2003 5:40pm up 4 days, 3:23, 6 users, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ To add insult to injury. -- Phaedrus
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