Error when logging into KDE

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DavidMarcus" <davidmarcus at la.sidefx.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Error when logging into KDE


> Does anyone know how to fix this.
> Everything was running fine, I changed the name of the computer,forgot to 
> change the alias, rebooted and got this. Now everytime I login into KDE I 
> get this error, it is even worse in gnome.

What do you mean, "forgot to change the alias?"  There are really only two 
places you need to set the hostname.  The first is /etc/sysconfig/network, 
and it should look something like this:

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=yourhost.example.com

The second place is /etc/hosts.  If you have a static address for your 
machine, it should look something like this:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.1.204   yourhost.example.com    yourhost


Make sure that you replace 192.168.1.204 with your real ip address, and 
replace yourhost.example.com with your computer's name.

If your machine gets its ip address via DHCP (like from a company network or 
a broadband router), then /etc/hosts will more likely look like this:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost yourhost.example.com 
yourhost

Thomas