RH9 system name issue
Hey there,
I've installed RH9 at a lab computer on campus, worked for hours on an assignment, and moved the drive home and booted up.. but I had wierd problems with X: No windows or applets will show, no text will display, background is back, menu bar doesn't exist, etc. And openoffice would insist on opening and asking me to register every time I started up and logged in with this user. It doesn't really make sense. So I logged in as root, and things display just fine. I played around for a bit, and suddenly applets and applications would refuse to open. Grrreaat. So I restarted again, had to log in as root (due to reasons above), and I get some error about having to add this strange user to my hosts. It's a big string of numbers and letters. After getting into a terminal window, I see the same string of letters and numbers as the computer name or something. Any idea why it's doing this, and how do I fix this? it used to display something along the lines of root:dlarmstr$ or something... now it has a huge string of numbers. (dlarmstr was the system name) |
Okay, I rebooted and tried to get the actual error message. And here's the system name: CPE00e0299f11c5-CM000039a50262
Error message: Could not look up internet address for CPE00e0299f11c5-CM000039a50262. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding CPE00e0299f11c5-CM000039a50262 to the file /etc/hosts. I... really don't know what to do. And I'm still getting applet issues sometimes. :( edit: and when in the terminal, instead of displaying, "root@dlarmstr" etc it shows, root@CPE00e0299f11c5-CM000039a50262" GAH! I'm starting to hate linux. |
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