2008/4/1 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > > My /etc/hosts file never changes during these operations, and the > environment variable $HOSTNAME continues to be localhost.localdomain, which > is defined in /etc/hosts But does the kernel's idea of the hostname change? (output of `hostname`) If it does that has historically broken X/ORBit. The real fix for that is for desktops not to change the hostname at all. Pick a hostname derived from the firstboot username, map it to 127.0.0.1, and never change it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list