Bug 10957

Summary:	X stalls when can't determine hostname
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	caseg
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
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Description caseg 2000-04-21 05:19:37 UTC

My roommate and I share a cable modem, since I haven't gotten around to
configuring a firewall/gateway box for our local network.  We just unplug
one machine from the back of the cable modem and plug in the other.  I've
noticed that when I'm unplugged, as if I were still online, when I type
'startx', it stalls for about 2 minutes, then finally kicks in and starts X
like normal.  When I look at the output of 'startx', I notice that there is
a line something like:  'xauth: cannot determine hostname'.  My hostname is
the one given me by my cable modem provider.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-05-20 22:25:05 UTC

This is a DNS misconfiguration problem, not an X bug.  Please configure
your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf properly to avoid this problem with
X, and with other network services as well.