On 30-Sep-2003/16:23 -0500, TBrowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While up and running several hosts running RedHat 8 and 9 on a local >network, the network went down for an office move. After graceful >shutdowns and the host were moved to our new office, we attempted to >restart them without a network connection. To our surpise, the X server >and gdm couldn't bring up the graphical login until the network waas >reconnected! What controls that and how can we start up graphically when >the network goes down?
Check the hosts file and make sure each machine has a reference to itself that does not require DNS to resolve. If the box has a single interface which uses DHCP, then you should assign a real name to the loopback interface, in addition to localhost: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost realhostname.realdomain realhostname That way, when gdm tries to make a network connection to realhostname, it will resolve to 127.0.0.1 instead of querying the DNS. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
