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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