[H-GEN] redhat 8.0 gnome and now can't login in

[Robert Kearey]

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Johann wrote:

> well, I think working is a lose term here, I still get the following 
> error when I issue "xhost +" -> xhost: unable to open display on ""

Why on earth are you doing this? Seriously.

> Double checking things, I have found an error in my hosts file in that  
> I spelt localdomain as localdoman - doh!, (so I fixed this and also 
> changed it so I have the 127.0.0.1 ... on one line and the my assigned 
> hostname, ip etc on a separate line)  I restarted x-windows, gnome 
> started to load, gave an error about not being able to load some 
> services, and proceeded to start loading some of the gnome services, 
> until about 5 secs later the screen went blank. Well at least that is 
> further progess that before. I rebooted the machine so see how gnome 
> would load from a fresh boot, but I get the same error I got initially, 
> so back to squae one.

Corrupted gnome defaults. You've probably convinced gnome it's not 
allowed to use the default screen when you've been thrashing around with 
xhost.

> Johann

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