[ale] R.H. 6.0 / GNOME problem

[Jim Kinney]

You don't have the local networking info configured properly. Even if it
will be a stand alone machine, setup everything in networking but the nic.
0.0.0.0 is not a good bogus address. Try 192.168.0.1 instead.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jim Rundquist wrote:

> I have just upgraded to RH6.0 from RH5.2 and included the GNOME desktop
> in the upgrade. Prior to the upgrade, I had installed the GNOME packages.
> My problem is this. When I start X I get a dialog box with the following
> message.
> 
>         Could not lookup internet address for babe. This will prevent
> GNOME
>         from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct this
> problem by
>         adding babe to file /etc/hosts.
> 
> However, /etc/hosts looks like this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1    localhost        localhost.localdomain
> 0.0.0.0    babe
> 
> where 'babe' is the name of my machine. This is a stand alone workstation
> with internet access through ppp which seems to work fine. Does anybody
> know what this means and what I'm missing out on in GNOME? I am going to
> try to install KDE on /usr2 so I can do a back-to-back evaluation of
> GNOME and KDE and I want to make sure everything is working correctly.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> -Jim
> 
> -- 
> Jim Rundquist
> jrundquist at fs1.mar.lmco.com
> 
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