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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0500
From:      Jesse Marquez <jmarquez@telenetwork.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: startx xauth errors
Message-ID:  <20041012125132.649777a8.jmarquez@telenetwork.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041012100915.K41628@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <E1CHMNG-0007J3-00@tron.telenetwork.com> <20041012100915.K41628@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:10:27 -0700 (PDT)
Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> 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



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