gnome error message

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Jun 14 09:24:02 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 09:08, n3rdBoy . wrote:
> hello,
>         I have been looking over the Handbook and I cannot find an answer to 
> my problem. Every time I start gnome as root or a normal user I get the 
> following error message;
> 
>                                       "Could not look up internet address 
> for .
>                                       this will prevent GNOME from operating 
> correctly
>                                       it may be possible to correct the 
> problem by adding
>                                       to the file /etc/hosts."
> 
> The message suggests adding to /etc/hosts, I've looked at the file and 
> several text books and am still not sure what to do.

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20

Joe

> 
> Thanks heaps,
> 
> Brett
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Find love today with ninemsn personals. Click here:  
> http://ninemsn.match.com?referrer=hotmailtagline
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
-- 
PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20040614/2348734a/attachment.bin


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list