During the linux startup on my RH 8.0 Dell Dimension 4600, I see this message "Localhost is bad" when lpd starts (however lpd still gets "OK"). When starting Gnome as root there is this message: "Could not look up internet address for localhost.localdomain. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding localhost.localdomain to the file /etc/hosts." I have done that (added the one line localhost.localdomain), however the above messages persist. I have set up the network adapter and ADSL internet connection which work fine (I documented this saga in a number of earlier posts). ifconfig shows appropriate values for eth0 and Io The localhost error seems to affect the lpd; I have set up my Epson C82 printer using printtool, but a test page will not print. It offers a choice of 6 test pages including 3 in Japanese. It seems there is a non-existent but troublesome Japanese text server (canna) running. When logging off, I get: localhost cannakill: Cannot kill server, because server is run by another machine. localhost canna: Stopping cannaserver: failed also: localhost lpd: lpd lpd shutdown failed I see there is a file etc/hosts.canna that has a single word, unix. I tried to edit my network adapter settings in case they were the source of the bad localhost. However when I edited the hosts and domain sections in the Network Device Control, the Control crashed; on restarting it says the network adapter is inactive, even though it is in fact active. If I attempt to redo all the entries in this Control, it crashes each time. I seem to be in a hole and probably need to stop digging, however any help would be much appreciated! Apparently I am not clear about how to find the correct internet address for localhost.local domain, and to pass it to the OS. Greg -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
