Xauth / gnome error

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Oct 13 19:19:41 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:04 -0700, James S Blankenship wrote:
> I keep getting this error when gnome starts "could not
> lookup address .ontrca.adelphia.net"  and when I
> shutdown X I get the error: Xauth bad display name
> ".ontrca.adelphia.net:0" in "remove" command.  I tried
> changing /etc/hosts from the default
> localhost.my.domain to localhost.ontrca.adelphia.net
> <http://localhost.ontrca.adelphia.net>,
> but have the same error.  Do you know how I might
> remedy this?

See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20 for what you need to
do to fix the hostname resolution issues for GNOME.

Joe
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