Gnome: Unable to resolve hostname

tincan · Guest

I've been trying to figure this one out for a couple of days now. When ever I log into gnome I keep getting this error, I've tried adding my hostname to 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/hosts file but no change. I'm running an Athlon XP with a G3 Ti200. Any ideas???

fghellar · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject:

I also had this problem once, but adding this

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 8:13 am Post subject:

Better is

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.*.* my.machine.com my

where 192.168.*.* is your machines ip adres my.machine.com is what is in your /etc/hostname my speaks for itself

tincan · Guest

I have already tried these.

I had this in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 my.client.com

and I also had this in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 my.client.com my

but none of these have resolved the issue! Still getting hostname not found on login.
Any other ideas??

tincan · Guest

Well, I finally figured it out!!! I checked my logs and this is what I was getting.

[gdm] gdm_peek_local_address_list: Could not get address from hostname! Apr 18 23:04:17 [gdm] gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Apr 18 23:04:17 [gnome-name-server] input condition is: 0x11, exiting Apr 18 23:04:22 [gdm] gdm_peek_local_address_list: Could not get address from hostname! Apr 18 23:04:23 [kernel] tty_io.c: process 2741 (X) used obsolete /dev/cua/0 - update software to use /dev/ttyS0
Apr 18 23:04:24 [kernel] tty_io.c: process 2741 (X) used obsolete /dev/cua/0 - update software to use /dev/ttyS0

So I changed my XF86config file wich had /dev/cua0 as the mouse, to to /dev/ttyS0, and bingo! Now it seems that Gnome is able to resolve my hostname, and performance has greatly increased as well. I never thought a mouse could cause such an problem. Now I can finally finish setting my client.