xmaxima, wxmaxima do not work

[Rex Dieter]

Antonio Olivares wrote:


>> Your hostname isn't resolving.  Check /etc/hosts
>> /etc/resolv.conf

> This is the cat output from /etc/hosts  and
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> [students at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
> [students at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

/etc/hosts being empty, bad.

My /etc/hosts contains (with a helpful comment):

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

-- Rex