Xauth - bad hostname

Enrique Ayesta Perojo eayesta at portugalete.uned.es
Thu Oct 13 01:45:34 PDT 2005


El Osteguna 13 Urria 2005 05:23, James S Blankenship escribió:
> I've successfully installed FreeBSD 5.4, and have X running. But I get the
> error message Xauth bad hostname when logging out of gnome, and when
> starting gnome, so gnome doesn't run as well as it could. How can I fix
> this? Sysinstall?
>
> Best regards,
> James

It happens because your machine doesn't have a FQDN, to solve it, you can 
edit /etc/hosts and change the line concerning to localhost to something 
like:

127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.my.domain machine_name.domain.name
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