From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 17:10:27 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 6E6C916A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:10:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601A243D1D for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:10:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5606D72DD4; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AD072DCB; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:10:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jesse Marquez In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20041012100915.K41628@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 17:10:27 -0000 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