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[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-04-22 17:13, Sebastien Dorey <dorey.sebastien at free.fr> wrote:
> When I use startx after login in text mode as root or whatever login
> is everything is going great (I followed instruction from the doc of
> freeBSD). If I launch xdm or KDM from text mode without changing
> anything in a conf file , login and password widget show up. When I
> login with the user password the screen is blinking and then come back
> to login graphical screen. When I watched in the .xsession-error file
> it was telling me that I could not log to X server :0.0 display not
> allowed. I solved the problem just by adding in the file /etc/rc.conf
> the hostname variable. This problem occurs to many people on the net
> so my sugestion is not inocent. Well I was guessing: is that possible
> to add in the doccumentation concerning X configuration for the first
> and precisely in the XDM or KDM chapter an add on that say 'don't
> forget to configure your localhost variable in /etc/rc.conf' otherwise
> you won't be abble to log properly.

Given that a lot of other things will probably break in nasty ways if a
hostname is not set, do we really need to explicitly mark all these
places?  If yes, then we should also state this in various other places
too (i.e. in the "Email" and "Security" chapters).