Am Mi, den 29.09.2004 schrieb Basil Copeland um 23:13: > If one edits network parameters using the gui applet > (system-network-config?), the desktop basically stops > working afterwards, and no gui applets open from the > menu until the system is restarted. > Basil You change the hostname? Then trouble running X is not surprising. Or what else do you change? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 23:33:47 up 1:59, 14 users, 1.69, 0.44, 0.28

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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:46:26 -0700 (PDT), Basil Copeland <blcjr(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: > Yes, I change the hostname. It is one of the first > things I do with a fresh install (change it from > "localhost.localdomain"). > > --- Alexander Dalloz > > > <alexander.dalloz(a)uni-bielefeld.de&gt; wrote: > > > Am Mi, den 29.09.2004 schrieb Basil Copeland um > > 23:13: > > > > > If one edits network parameters using the gui > > applet > > > (system-network-config?), the desktop basically > > stops > > > working afterwards, and no gui applets open from > > the > > > menu until the system is restarted. > > > > > Basil > > > > You change the hostname? Then trouble running X is > > not surprising. Or > > what else do you change? > > > > Alexander > > > > > > -- > > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key > > 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel > > 2.6.8-1.521smp > > Serendipity 23:33:47 up 1:59, 14 users, 1.69, 0.44, > > 0.28 > > > > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature > name=signature.asc > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > you need to restart X if you change the hostname, however, lets not make an excuse for the bug in the gui tool, which is if you allow people to change the hostname using it, should at least warn the consequencies. Yang -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

[Framingham-Vball] Men's C on Jan 2 @ LSBasil Copeland wrote: > Thanks to both of you for clearing this up for me. In particular, don't change the name of the loopback device (127.0.0.1). At most you can add an alias for it if you don't have any other network, but it needs to still answer to the name localhost for certain stuff to work. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome(a)rcn.com cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

I don't know if this is a gnome issue or not, but it has been around since at least RH 9, and I now see it still in Fedora Core 2.

If one edits network parameters using the gui applet (system-network-config?), the desktop basically stops working afterwards, and no gui applets open from the menu until the system is restarted.

I thought it was a quirk of RH 9, or perhaps the version of gnome RH 9 uses, but I now see exactly the same behaviour in Fedora Core 2, which I just installed for the first time. I'm surprised that this behaviour still persists, after all the water that has passed under the bridge since RH 9. What's going on? Is there a user fix?