Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:07:51 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: Sebastien Dorey <dorey.sebastien@free.fr> Subject: Re: install Message-ID: <e0fd91f6ff5ff67a4fc9dfef70e6f2e0@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20050423020221.GB36595@gothmog.gr> References: <1114182791.42691487b2e41@imp5-q.free.fr> <20050423020221.GB36595@gothmog.gr>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Apr 2005, at 03:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-04-22 17:13, Sebastien Dorey <dorey.sebastien@free.fr> wrote: >> When I use startx after login in text mode as root or whatever login >> is everything is going great (I followed instruction from the doc of >> freeBSD). If I launch xdm or KDM from text mode without changing >> anything in a conf file , login and password widget show up. When I >> login with the user password the screen is blinking and then come back >> to login graphical screen. When I watched in the .xsession-error file >> it was telling me that I could not log to X server :0.0 display not >> allowed. I solved the problem just by adding in the file /etc/rc.conf >> the hostname variable. This problem occurs to many people on the net >> so my sugestion is not inocent. Well I was guessing: is that possible >> to add in the doccumentation concerning X configuration for the first >> and precisely in the XDM or KDM chapter an add on that say 'don't >> forget to configure your localhost variable in /etc/rc.conf' otherwise >> you won't be abble to log properly. > > Given that a lot of other things will probably break in nasty ways if a > hostname is not set, do we really need to explicitly mark all these > places? If yes, then we should also state this in various other places > too (i.e. in the "Email" and "Security" chapters). That really depends on whether we intend the Handbook to be read as a whole or not. I think that putting such warnings everywhere would make sense in an article or in the FAQ, but not in the Handbook. Ceri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCamTOocfcwTS3JF8RAveqAJ4rF+al6AcGigNznWi6KApwQ6XNigCgpfX3 P6SuhtiywN84j7VBqiIi7yI= =Ock0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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