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Rock Lee

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Registered: 2004-03-14

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[SOLVED] XFCE can't find IP for the localhsot!?

After installing XFCE, and started it a message tells

"It can't find IP for BAUHAUS (the localhost). Look for your DNS configuration or put BAUHAUS in the /etc/hosts. Continue? Try Again?"

Why XFCE looks for the IP? My computer is disconnected almost all the day; and I only connect it to surf, or pacman. And the message appears inmedatly after put "startxfce4", in the x-window, before the task-bar, xfdestop,...are loaded.

This hasn't happened before. What I can do? Thanks

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE can't find IP for the localhsot!?

Add the following to /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1               bauhaus        bauhaus

Rock Lee

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Registered: 2004-03-14

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE can't find IP for the localhsot!?

Thanks 

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE can't find IP for the localhsot!?

You might also want to keep the <code>localhost</code> alias in your hosts file as well, since some programs depend on it being there for the loopback interface (I know that NTP does), and others look for your actual hostname (like Xfce, as you've noticed).  You can have both without any problems:

127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain     localhost  bauhaus