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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:19:39 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        James S Blankenship <dragoninterrupted@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xauth / gnome error
Message-ID:  <1129256379.2887.0.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <5b4b4d800510131904s329f595hb5dc104979b448b0@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <5b4b4d800510131904s329f595hb5dc104979b448b0@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:04 -0700, James S Blankenship wrote:
> I keep getting this error when gnome starts "could not
> lookup address .ontrca.adelphia.net"  and when I
> shutdown X I get the error: Xauth bad display name
> ".ontrca.adelphia.net:0" in "remove" command.  I tried
> changing /etc/hosts from the default
> localhost.my.domain to localhost.ontrca.adelphia.net
> <http://localhost.ontrca.adelphia.net>,
> but have the same error.  Do you know how I might
> remedy this?

See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20 for what you need to
do to fix the hostname resolution issues for GNOME.

Joe
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