[PLUG] trouble with GNOME

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 1:23 pm, Sean wrote:
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> I believe many of the problems I am having are a result of an initial
> issue I have at start-up.  The following is the error message I get when
> I login:
>
> Could not look up internet address for <local computer>.
> This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
> It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
> <local computer> to the file /etc/hosts
>
> Any suggestions on what is going on and what I need to do to fix it?
>
> I am running Redhat 8

Does your /etc/hosts file have this line:

127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain

This must be in every single /etc/hosts file, on every Linux system.

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