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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V5.1 alpha) Description of problem: Hi! All of a sudden my newly installed RH 7.2 (about an week old) wont start X when I boot the computer. Instead I just get the normal command prompt and can login and then write 'startx' and GNOME will start. It will however complain that my hostname can't be found. I found that the reason for this is that my /etc/resolv.conf isn't being generated properly at startup anymore. It will be missing the line 'search my_domain.com'. I'm not quite sure why it suddenly isn't being generated correctly (I am using DHCP) or if it is the reason why X wont start automatically or if it is just another indication of something even more serious being broke. If I manually add 'search my_domain.com' to /etc/resolv.conf before I write 'startx' GNOME will start without complaints. Even with the complaint it will however start when I do it manually. At first I thought something was wrong with my specific installation but then I heard that a friend of mine has the exact same problem and I also saw a post in your support forums about the very same problem (without solution unfortunately) leading me to believe that this might perhaps be a known easy-to-fix problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hmm.. I just boot the system.. =) Actual Results: I just get the console based login prompt Expected Results: I would had liked the 'gdm'-login instead but I never get to see this anymore. Additional info: This is a plain vanilla RH 7.2 updated to all the latest RPMs through 'update agent'.
This is not a bug, rather a technical support/configurability issue. Bugzilla is only for bug tracking, and is not intended for providing general technical support. Please try our mailing lists or other support forums to work out this local configuration issue. Thanks.