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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Error when logging into KDE
Does anyone know how to fix this.
Everything was running fine, I changed the name of the computer,forgot to change the alias, rebooted and got this. Now everytime I login into KDE I get this error, it is even worse in gnome.
What do you mean, "forgot to change the alias?" There are really only two places you need to set the hostname. The first is /etc/sysconfig/network, and it should look something like this:
NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=yourhost.example.com
The second place is /etc/hosts. If you have a static address for your machine, it should look something like this:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.204 yourhost.example.com yourhost
Make sure that you replace 192.168.1.204 with your real ip address, and replace yourhost.example.com with your computer's name.
If your machine gets its ip address via DHCP (like from a company network or a broadband router), then /etc/hosts will more likely look like this:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost yourhost.example.com yourhost
Thomas
