From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 17:51:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F4A16A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAFD243D2F for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:51:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmarquez@telenetwork.com) Received: from minuslinux.com (cs7011250-112.austin.rr.com [70.112.50.112]) i9CHpLBE004660; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:51:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0500 From: Jesse Marquez To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20041012125132.649777a8.jmarquez@telenetwork.com> In-Reply-To: <20041012100915.K41628@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20041012100915.K41628@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12-gtk2-20040622 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: startx xauth errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:51:25 -0000 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Jesse Marquez wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Watson > > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:52 AM > > To: Doug White > > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org; jmarquez@telenetwork.com > > Subject: Re: startx xauth errors > > > > > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Doug White wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 jmarquez@telenetwork.com wrote: > > > > > > > When I execute startx, xauth gives me the following error twice in a > > row. > > > > > > > > xauth: (stdin):1: bad "add" command line > > > > > > Make sure your machine can resolve its own hostname. THere's a couple > > > of name lookups in the xauth path and it'll spit this out if the lookup > > > fails. Make sure the system's hostname is fully qualified and listed in > > > /etc/hosts, DNS, or both :) > > > > Hosts file looks good, any other tips? > > try > > telnet `hostname` > > If that gives a host-resolution-type error, better check /etc/hosts again > :) > > Otherwise we'd need all of the xauth messages. It usually whines about > something else when it prints a message like that. telnet gives no errors when trying to establish a connection to host, those are the only xauth errors i'm receiving. You can check out the thread on the issue here http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25583