Bug 83998
Summary: | metacity fails to do host lookups from the display string | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | P Jones <bugzilla> | ||||
Component: | metacity | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 8.0 | Keywords: | Triaged | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
Last Closed: | 2004-11-03 18:35:07 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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Bug Blocks: | 79579, 100644 | ||||||
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Description
P Jones
2003-02-10 21:24:10 UTC
Looks like an Xlib problem to me - does xterm work? or xclock? Please reopen on adding info. xterm, mwm, gnome-panel, and nautilus all work. More looking into it seems that this condition only happens if the name in address *IS* in /etc/hosts. In this case, "blip". I really have no initial guess how metacity is different from other apps in this area, but will have a look. That error message occurs when gethostbyname() thinks the host is not a TCP/IP host; can you attach your /etc/hosts file? I don't know how it would happen or how it could be metacity-only. I tried reproducing the problem with Xnest/xdmcp and it works for me, tried both with and without the hostname in /etc/hosts. I am trying with the latest beta though, not with 8.0. Created attachment 90098 [details]
/etc/hosts file used in problem
Please reopen if still present in Fedora Core 2 |