Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 00:01:30 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <coop9211@uidaho.edu> To: Khong SF <khongs@hotmail.com> Cc: Gnome FreeBSD <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: gnome won't start Message-ID: <1084863688.1059.2.camel@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <Sea2-F12TynbR7wwU2k0001bb4b@hotmail.com> References: <Sea2-F12TynbR7wwU2k0001bb4b@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 23:45, Khong SF wrote: > Hi > > I've been using FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a PIII box for a while. > I tried for weeks to get the gnome1.4 desktop running but to no prevails. > The problems i encountered were: > > 1) when gnome starts, it pop up a diaglog box saying > " unable to find host adress for. > please check the file /etc/hosts ...... blah blah blah" > Then it gave me choices to continue/ try again, > if i click try again, the diaglog box appear again & if i click > continue, the blank desktop just freezed > > 2) My /etc/hosts file is OK, it looks like below: > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain > > 3) my X11 & windowmaker (Enlightenment) start just fine, but every time > when i exit the > windowmaker, the same situation like problem 1) reappear. > > 4) the Xserver-error file in my home dir sounds like this: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > Gtk-warning **: cannot open display: :0 > SESSION_MANAGER=local/:tmp/.ICE-unix/274 > > 5) do i need Openssh in order to run X11 &/ gnome1.4 ? > just what's wrong with my gnome desktop ? > > > Many thanks for those who can help. > > > regards, > winter. > You need an entry for your hostname or the ORBit/GConf stuff will be all screwed up. Localhost alone is not enough to run Gnome. jmc
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