When X does....nothing.

[Duane Morin]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 gboyce at badbelly.com wrote:
> Gnome hangs a bit if it cannot resolve the hostname defined on the 
> machine.  Try adding your hostname to /etc/hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1.  
> See if that helps.

cat /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

hostname:	
 localhost.localdomain

nslookup localhost.localdomain:
  ** server can't find localhost.localdomain

nslookup localhost:
  Name: localhost.tripadvisor.com     (<-- my work network)
  Address: 127.0.0.1


Duane

> 
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Duane Morin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here's some interesting new information I just discovered last night when 
> > I was home without a net connection.  X works just fine.  When I came into 
> > work this morning and eth0 came up, it went back to doing its hang thing.
> > So Gnome must be trying to do something over the net before it starts up?
> > Something that it can't do in a short period of time?
> > 
> > Duane
> >  
> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Duane Morin wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm back.  Long story short I just lost a week's worth of config work by 
> > > trashing my hard drive.  D'oh.  Now I'm back up with a dedicated Fedora
> > > build (instead of the previous semi update).
> > > 
> > > I have the latest NVidia drivers.  X boots...I get a flash of NVidia logo, 
> > > then blank screen, with X cursor that I can move at will.  
> > > 
> > > But that's it.  It never goes anywhere.  If I do "X --verbose", the last 
> > > thing I see is XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Kernel Inptu 
> > > handler" (type other).
> > > 
> > > So what I'm wondering is, maybe it's not an NVidia thing at all, maybe X 
> > > is just sitting there and waiting infinitely because it's supposed to be 
> > > doing something next and can't.
> > > 
> > > If it's any more information, when I try to get into gnome I get the 
> > > Fedora splash box, but then none of the little icons that usually 
> > > represent the starting services. 
> > > 
> > > So what's supposed to be the first service that it starts?
> > > 
> > > Thanks!!!
> > > 
> > > Duane
> > > 
> > > 
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