login error re domain in etc/hosts

rhipps · 06-27-2007, 07:07 PM

forgive my newbieness, but I can't seem to get rid of this error when I start up Fedora 4:

Could not look up internet address for localhost.localdomain.
This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
localhost.localdomain to the file /etc/hosts.

I have added the above to etc/hosts as root, no joy. What's the trick?

chrism01 · 06-28-2007, 07:40 AM

does the line look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
note those are tabs not spaces ....

rhipps · 06-28-2007, 11:36 PM

no. I can make it look like that. Is that IP addr the one to use? or just an example?

rhipps · 06-28-2007, 11:57 PM

thanx, I used that exact entry and it worked!! coolness.

chrism01 · 06-29-2007, 08:06 AM

No worries

rhipps · 06-29-2007, 11:14 PM

next time I'm in Brisbane, I'm buyin'

a buddy just moved to Sydney, may have to come out that way sometime.

chrism01 · 07-02-2007, 07:36 AM

works for me ..