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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] DCOP Authentication Failure
From:       Peter Hiltz <peter () peterhiltz ! com>
Date:       2002-04-13 16:27:03
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Sean,

Bingo, you've narrowed it down.

/etc/hostname contains the single line
scruppy.peterhiltz.com

which is correct.

hostname -f returns 'hostname: Unknown host'

The startup scripts claim to successfully set name to scruppy.peterhiltz.com, 
but apparently don't.

If I run 'hostname scruppy.peterhiltz.com'

KDE is happy (or at least as happy as it gets without sound drivers setup 
yet).  Now to investigate why the init.d script isn't working properly.

Thanks. I owe you a drink.


Peter



On Saturday 13 April 2002 11:01, Sean McGlynn wrote:
> I think Dralan was on the right track.
>
> In startx you'll probably have lines like these
>
> # set up default Xauth info for this machine
> mcookie=`mcookie`
> serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"
> xauth add $display . $mcookie
> xauth add `hostname -f`$display . $mcookie
>
> The mcookie stuff is needed by DCOP for authorisation over ICE AFAIK.
> If that 'hostname -f' is screwing up (hence your 'hostname: Unknown host'
> error message) then maybe the results of the xauth commands in .Xauthority
> might be messing up DCOP down the line. Just guessing here of course.
>
> Does the command 'hostname -f' indeed return 'hostname: Unknown host'?
> What are the contents of /etc/hostname?
>
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