Startup message in GNOME

[Karen Chapdelaine]

About a month ago Piero wrote:

 >Hi,

 >W lis'cie otrzymanym Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:18:21 -0400 od "Paul Calabrese"
 ><pcalabrese at adelphia.net> :

 >> I'm running FreeBSD Release 4.4. and trying to get GNOME working. When
 >> I start GNOME with xinit command I get the following start up message:

(following part restored from previous message)
 >>Could not look up internet address for PRC.buf.adelphia.net. This will
 >>prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the
 >>problem by adding PRC.buf.adelphia.net to the file /etc/hosts.

 >You should probably upgrade to at least 4.6, see quote from
 >http://www.freebsd.org/gnome:

 >State of the port
 >We currently support 4.x and 5-CURRENT FreeBSD systems for GNOME 1.4 and
 >2.2. Anything prior to FreeBSD 4.6 is not supported.

 >---
  >Piero
  >piero at poprostu.pl

The answer is:  No.

I am running FreeBSD Release 5.4, new install, and get the same
message  (obviously with a different host name, etc...) when I try to run
gnome.  Actually, when I try to run it from .xinitrc using startx, nothing
happens (gnomewise, that is), period.  When I get into X, I can run
"exec gnome-session" or "exec gnome-session &" in a window, and
I get gnome, but I also get the error message.

Most notably, I get my ip from my ISP using dhcp, and am on an internal
network with bogus ips provided from my router (eg. 192.168.1.100, etc...).
Yes, I put the computer name in the etc/hosts file.  But I am pretty sure the
fact that I am using DHCP and a bogus IP has something to do with
my problem.

And I think I just disabled my network interface on FreeBSD by accident by
trying to run the networking setup interface in Gnome.  That should take a
few to fix, but I don't think I need help with that.  I am a little 
inexperienced
with xwindows, but quite experienced with FreeBSD.

But I do need help trying to figure out how to fix the error message in gnome,
and it isn't a problem with being up to date.  I promise.  I would prefer
a solution that didn't involve disabling FAM in gnome-vfs, for example.

Thank you,

Karen Chapdelaine