Re: Xauth / gnome error

2005-10-13 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:34 -0700, James S Blankenship wrote: > Thanks. Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but I don't know what my > machines host name is; I used DHCP during installation, and believe that it > may have been named .ontrca.adelphia.net by default. How can I determine the > loc

Re: Xauth / gnome error

2005-10-13 Thread James S Blankenship
Thanks. Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but I don't know what my machines host name is; I used DHCP during installation, and believe that it may have been named .ontrca.adelphia.net by default. How can I determine the localhost name and/or change it? Otherwise, you've provided me with great

Re: Xauth / gnome error

2005-10-13 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:04 -0700, James S Blankenship wrote: > I keep getting this error when gnome starts "could not > lookup address .ontrca.adelphia.net" and when I > shutdown X I get the error: Xauth bad display name > ".ontrca.adelphia.net:0" in "remove" command. I tried > changing /etc/hos

Xauth / gnome error

2005-10-13 Thread James S Blankenship
I keep getting this error when gnome starts "could not lookup address .ontrca.adelphia.net" and when I shutdown X I get the error: Xauth bad display name ".ontrca.adelphia.net:0" in "remove" command. I tried changing /etc/hosts from the default localhost.my.domain to localhost.ontrca.adelphia.net