For me, the problem appeared first after an update to ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and then once more when updating to xubuntu 8.10 (from 7.10).
The problem was that the hostname has been set to 'localhost.localdomain' while booting (NetworkManager did it, because it could not determine a better one, because config was not ok) and then changed to the real hostname (configured in /etc/hostname) when I connected to a WLAN. Xorg doen't like hostname changes while running, the consequence is: No more new xclients! (xauth denies it) That did the trick for me: - log out from xorg - go to a console ([Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F1]) and login - enter: sudo killall NetworkManager - enter: sudo tee /etc/network/interfaces <<EOF auto lo iface lo inet loopback EOF - enter: sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf <<EOF [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=false EOF - edit your /etc/hosts and change all entries starting with 127.0.*.1 (replace YOURHOSTNAME with the hostname configured in /etc/hostname) to 127.0.0.1 YOURHOSTNAME YOURHOSTNAME.local localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.1.1 YOURHOSTNAME YOURHOSTNAME.local localhost localhost.localdomain - reboot (sudo reboot) -- NetworkManager changes hostname to *.private https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
