From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3htS-0003wA-8A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:06:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D80BBE044E; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C998E0441 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so1482078fks.2 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=qGZn+nSWSCjFZbDF5y9tbqHxKHII8Kj1dsMR/vNzxV8=; b=RRbyiVmXI5ROOhJVORZmHTTsy6LAikvnxeYrtgk6M04B7D8Lg0GMGGWpaWxBsyoc/9 //1qAnknBfI/dXnnRoCvs9CHZCLiajVyqwN2Fp5/fxK8NQNLO4BswesDIWPKGcVQIoKM 0w5mjGsyc6so0LjqfyeGSe6tHubFvHXQRnU/Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=PoLL6WdifVGsc2P/Ykvqrp/fL6Bysy1/N4paYIvGMkmyrzEDvoyi62n7HD7LfL4yMl zsjLv9QvBbDhwVTEn1iRJm/z8KTxRo9GEUGZbyoh6DfLbcDGlBp2kShonesa7rTHB7MA Fa/hZYsamFks7iPRLZAxTdv41XEZ2iY1ObS7M= Received: by 10.103.239.10 with SMTP id q10mr297228mur.67.1227319599166; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.168.9 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:06:39 -0500 From: "Andrey Vul" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: startx fails launching KDE 4 In-Reply-To: <87hc605xqj.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87ljvc600i.fsf@newsguy.com> <87hc605xqj.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2a2fd23f-cd38-40f8-806f-288533aa5340 X-Archives-Hash: 09aedd90f93c799cecd52cf73b5534ac On 2008-11-21, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Andrey Vul" writes: > > > On 2008-11-21, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> "Andrey Vul" writes: > >> > >> > Result of startx &> xlog; cat xlog : > >> > hostname: Host name lookup failure > >> > >> > >> I'm not sure how much this may help you problem. But have you made > >> changes to your /etc/hosts file recently. You might post the first > >> line of it here. > > First line: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > > Note: this is the first line on both the computer currently running > > KDE 4 and the one failing to run KDE 4. > > > Do the contents of /etc/conf.d/hostname > and /etc/conf.d/domainname > > have similar kind of information on both machines?. > > I once had quite a lot of trouble with sendmail and a helpful poster > here told me to fix /etc/hosts like this: > > 127.0.0.1 reader.local.lan reader localhost > 192.168.0.4 reader.local.lan reader > [...] > > The advice pertained to the first line above. The second was my own > addition. > > Below is a note from my hosts file showing the origin of the tip. > > # From: Heinz Sporn > # Subject: Re: Why does sendmail think its hosts name is `localhost' > # Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user > # Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:37:08 +0100 > # Message-ID: <1139294228.9734.10.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> > # [HP 02/07/06 02:37 Trying a tip from Heinz Sporn - switching > ## 127.0.0.1 localhost reader to > ## 127.0.0.1 reader localhost .. I think he's on to > ## something... we'll see.] > # 127.0.0.1 localhost reader > > I haven't had a host lookup issue for quite a long time as you can see > by the date in the post. > > But this may not be very helpful for your current problem. However > host lookup trouble can be quite hard to diagnose. Host lookup has nothing to do with this. Last time I checked, kde doesn't do anything with dnsdomainname. Also, I don't even have /etc/{init.d,conf.d}/domainname . -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?