For the record, in case this can help someone else solve the same problem, or fix the root-cause: I installed fedora8t2 on new hardware and came up with no network. The on-board NIC was not recognized by the kernel, so initially I had no network. I installed a PCI NIC for long enough to boot and upgrade to the latest rawhide, and then, the on-board NICs were recognized. Later, I saw that running "ssh -Y host any-x-app" to that system would always fail with this: Error: Can't open display: localhost:11.0 The cause turned out to be that /etc/hosts was empty, so the system failed to resolve "localhost". My solution was to add this line to /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
