On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 18:38, Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote: > I'm having a problem when starting gnome. GDM starts > flawlessly (sp?) but then after I type the user and > password, i get this: > > Could not look up internet address for mightyone. > This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. > It may be possible to correct the problem by adding > mightyone to the file /etc/hosts. > > *where mightyone is my computer. > > the /etd/host file is this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Try modifying the /etc/hosts file: Mine looks like this - my computer name is gstpc, and I don't get the message you get. I have seen it in the past. I did not set this up, it was done during the normal install. [gerry@xxxxx gerry]$ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 gstpc localhost.localdomain localhost Gerry
