Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:10:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Jesse Marquez <jmarquez@telenetwork.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: startx xauth errors Message-ID: <20041012100915.K41628@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E1CHMNG-0007J3-00@tron.telenetwork.com> References: <E1CHMNG-0007J3-00@tron.telenetwork.com>
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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. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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