[gentoo-user] Re: startx fails launching KDE 4

[Harry Putnam]

"Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@×××××.com> writes:

> On 2008-11-21, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
>> "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@×××××.com> writes:
>>
>>  > Result of startx &> xlog; cat xlog :
>>  > hostname: Host name lookup failure
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how much this may help you problem.  But have you made
>>  changes to your /etc/hosts file recently.  You might post the first
>>  line of it here.
> First line:
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
>
> Note: this is the first line on both the computer currently running
> KDE 4 and the one failing to run KDE 4.

Do the contents of /etc/conf.d/hostname
and                 /etc/conf.d/domainname

have similar kind of information on both machines?.

I once had quite a lot of trouble with sendmail and a helpful poster
here told me to fix /etc/hosts like this:

  127.0.0.1	 reader.local.lan        reader     localhost
  192.168.0.4	 reader.local.lan        reader
  [...]

The advice pertained to the first line above.  The second was my own
addition.

Below is a note from my hosts file showing the origin of the tip.

  # From: Heinz Sporn <heinz.sporn@××××××××.com>
  # Subject: Re: Why does sendmail think its hosts name is `localhost'
  # Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
  # Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:37:08 +0100
  # Message-ID: <1139294228.9734.10.camel@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
  # [HP 02/07/06 02:37  Trying a tip from Heinz Sporn - switching
  ## 127.0.0.1   localhost   reader to
  ## 127.0.0.1   reader      localhost .. I think he's on to 
  ## something... we'll see.]
  # 127.0.0.1		 localhost       reader 

I haven't had a host lookup issue for quite a long time as you can see
by the date in the post.

But this may not be very helpful for your current problem.  However
host lookup trouble can be quite hard to diagnose.