Bug 65878

Summary:	gdm shouldn't die with unresolvable name
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jerry Quinn <jlquinn>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	wtogami
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Description Jerry Quinn 2002-06-03 17:37:38 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.1 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020421
Debian/1.2.1-1

Description of problem:
If a machine has a working network config, but the hostname does not
resolve, gdm refuses to start the xserver with:

gdm_auth_secure_display: Error getting hentry for <machinename>

In my particular case, this happens because we have a secure dynamic
dns update mechanism and I haven't configured it yet.  I can still
access the network and have a valid IP.

At best this is obscure and guaranteed to leave a newbie stumped.  Why should
the X server refuse to start because gdm can't resolve the hostname?  It can
still authenticate the user the same way the console can.

An error message at the graphic would be more appropriate.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set up machine with a working network config, but an unresolvable
 hostname
2. Watch gdm squirm
3.
	

Actual Results:  As described above.

Expected Results:  Described above.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-06-09 15:00:04 UTC

Bug posted on gnome.org at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84659 - you
may want to get on the cc list for that upstream bug.

We will get the fix if this is resolved upstream.