Bug 66725 - gdm hangs because missing /etc/HOSTNAME file
Summary: gdm hangs because missing /etc/HOSTNAME file
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-06-14 13:25 UTC by Peter Englmaier
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:28 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-09-29 20:00:54 UTC
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Description Peter Englmaier 2002-06-14 13:25:14 UTC
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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:

Comment 1 Pam Huntley 2002-07-08 17:42:05 UTC
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.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:00:54 UTC
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.


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