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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: When ethernet is installed after installing redhat (that is not during the install process), gdm was only working when ethernet was up and running. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Here is what I did and how I fixed it. I installed rh7.3 from scratch on a Dell Inspiron 3800. Later, I configured ethernet. When rebooting without ethernet cable attached or ethernet device disabled - gdm hangs. I noticed a forked subprocess of xdm hanging on something having to do with my hostname (found this out with strace -p gdm-pid). When doing 'hostname localhost' as root, the hanging gdm suddenly worked. Having realized that, I found out that I needed to write my hostname to /etc/HOSTNAME in order to get gdm work without ethernet as well. This file used to be created by initscripts, AFAIK. Can be, that this bug is really a problem in 'neat' or somewhere else. Additional info:
Hi, We had this problem, except gdm was reverting back to text mode, even though inittab had runlevel 5. I was able to fix it also by adding the guys host name, with ip address 127.0.0.1, into the /etc/hosts file. I figured it was because he was using dhcp, but had manually specified a hostname. I also commented on bug #63956, it seemed to be related.
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