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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:34:50PM +0200, Fredrik Carl?n wrote:
> When X starts, though, it complains that -  and I quote -  
> "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured". 
Where exactly does it complain out of interest?

>  
> Now where does this little gem stem from? I've even used profanity, 
> but nothing seems to work... 
:)

> # hostname 
> al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 
>  
> # echo $HOSTNAME 
> al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 
>  
> # uname -a 
> FreeBSD al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 
> 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003     
> root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 
Does sound like an issue with X after the above.

One minor thing and probably irrelevant if you've rebooted, but have you
tried flushing your DNS cache (if you're running one)?