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Old 01-15-2006, 01:10 PM   #1
DJOtaku
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Gnome complains about /etc/hosts


Every time I log into Gnome it says:

"COuld not look up internet address for short-e.localdomain. This will prevent Gnome from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding short-e.localdomain to the file /etc/hosts"

w/ the options

"Log in anyway" "try again"

But I am able to use the internet and use Gnome just fine. It just annoys me to always have this error when I log in. If it helps, I copied my home directory from another computer when I switch computers. I don't know whether or not I copied the .gnome or w/e is messing this up, but I'd rather not delete it if possible as I have made many settings with this computer.

Thanks!
 
Old 01-15-2006, 01:16 PM   #2
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look at your /etc/hosts file as root... and add the different computers on your network

something like:

192.168.1.100 computer1
192.168.1.101 computer2
 
Old 01-15-2006, 06:43 PM   #3
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Looks like your old system is looking for that system as part of it's startup. If I had to guess, you off-loaded some of your information from your work computer, and inadvertently included some of the system settings as well. Most likely, it's just annoying, not something that will affect your using it. A wild guess is that the other system is set up to connect to a main server, and obviously your new system isn't using the same network, so when it tries to connect (to reach databases, system-wide updates, etc.) it's lost. You should be able to fix this easily enough, simply by browsing through the various network settings available to Gnome. (Which one is affecting it is a little hard to guess, as it could be MS-Windows/Samba related, Netware, or another of the dozens of network OS's out there.)

While you could edit your /etc/hosts file (and put in a "dummy" computer, looping back to your own system) to "pretend" to connect to the desired system, it will most likely result in other errors, because even when it "thinks" it's connecting, it won't receive the correct responses to it's requests.

On the upside, once you figure out where/what the problem is, not only will you understand Linux/Gnome's networking process better, but you'll even have a bit of insight into the network used at the location where your other computer is located.
 
  


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