/etc/hosts and system entries

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 10:47:30 UTC 2007


On 01/10/2007, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:

> Okay, I think I have a fix for this.
>
> The bug is that the ICE sockets are bound at session startup by
> gnome-session (or whatever), and the path to them is stashed in
> $SESSION_MANAGER in the environment as a tuple of (transport, hostname,
> port).  But the hostname in that tuple is whatever you got back from
> gethostname().  NetworkManager won't change the system hostname when
> changing DHCP leases, but dhclient will, and more generally we can't
> rely on the user to not set the hostname to whatever they want.

Aha!

Yes, that would do it.

> Fortunately, there's a special case in the xtrans code that treats the
> hostname "unix" as meaning "no, really, local machine", so for AF_UNIX
> transports we just lie and set the "hostname" in the above tuple to be
> "unix" and avoid that whole mess.

That makes sense.

> Fixed in xorg-x11-xtrans-devel 1.0.3-5 and libICE 1.0.4-2 (currently
> building).  Anyone who was seeing X app launch stalling or failing after
> changing networks/IPs/hostnames/whatever, please update libICE and see
> if you can still repro it.

Any chance of an F7 update for that? I can't really justify pushing
rawhide (or test3) onto my workstation here ...

> - ajax




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