Startup message in GNOME

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 15:18 -0700, Karen Chapdelaine wrote:
> About a month ago Piero wrote:
> 
>  >Hi,
> 
>  >W lis'cie otrzymanym Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:18:21 -0400 od "Paul Calabrese"
>  ><pcalabrese at adelphia.net> :
> 
>  >> I'm running FreeBSD Release 4.4. and trying to get GNOME working. When
>  >> I start GNOME with xinit command I get the following start up message:
> 
> (following part restored from previous message)
>  >>Could not look up internet address for PRC.buf.adelphia.net. This will
>  >>prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the
>  >>problem by adding PRC.buf.adelphia.net to the file /etc/hosts.
> 
>  >You should probably upgrade to at least 4.6, see quote from
>  >http://www.freebsd.org/gnome:
> 
>  >State of the port
>  >We currently support 4.x and 5-CURRENT FreeBSD systems for GNOME 1.4 and
>  >2.2. Anything prior to FreeBSD 4.6 is not supported.
> 
>  >---
>   >Piero
>   >piero at poprostu.pl
> 
> The answer is:  No.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD Release 5.4, new install, and get the same
> message  (obviously with a different host name, etc...) when I try to run
> gnome.  Actually, when I try to run it from .xinitrc using startx, nothing
> happens (gnomewise, that is), period.  When I get into X, I can run
> "exec gnome-session" or "exec gnome-session &" in a window, and
> I get gnome, but I also get the error message.
> 
> Most notably, I get my ip from my ISP using dhcp, and am on an internal
> network with bogus ips provided from my router (eg. 192.168.1.100, etc...).
> Yes, I put the computer name in the etc/hosts file.  But I am pretty sure the
> fact that I am using DHCP and a bogus IP has something to do with
> my problem.
> 
> And I think I just disabled my network interface on FreeBSD by accident by
> trying to run the networking setup interface in Gnome.  That should take a
> few to fix, but I don't think I need help with that.  I am a little 
> inexperienced
> with xwindows, but quite experienced with FreeBSD.
> 
> But I do need help trying to figure out how to fix the error message in gnome,
> and it isn't a problem with being up to date.  I promise.  I would prefer
> a solution that didn't involve disabling FAM in gnome-vfs, for example.

You need to add your hostname (as obtained via the hostname(1) command)
to /etc/hosts.  If your IP address changes, then it's best to add a
entry that points this hostname to 127.0.0.1.  You don't necessarily
have to disable FAM, but you should thoroughly read the FAQ surrounding
this issue at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20.

Joe

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