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

[Johann]

Hi All,
        I finally have email, my ADSL is with TPG and apparently some 
kind soul at 11 this morning decided to dig through TPG's cable. Anyway, 
I was playing around with xhosts because I thought it did a little more 
that just allow connections for remote hosts, but I know I was barking 
up the wrong tree there. I thought my problem was related to either dns 
or an authorization issue (hence I thought xhost might be involved). I 
later discovered that gnome was in fact loading but that is was just 
taking a very long time. I also traced back my steps and ended up 
looking at the iptables rules that I'd been setting, and once I disabled 
iptables, bingo, everything worked fine.

I sent some emails earlier, they may or may not arrive : )

Thanks for the replies.


Joel Michael wrote:

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>On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:22, Robert Kearey wrote:
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>>Yep, sounds like what I've described above -  a classic 
>>fiddle-break-aiiee-thrash-breaksomemore-ohgod-splat scenario.
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>However, I've found these scenarios quite invaluable for learning how
>stuff works, especially when you take the time to find out what has
>happened and how to fix it (like Johann is doing).  If possible, try not
>to take the easy way out and re-install the system - that teaches you
>nothing.
>
>It's how I learnt Linux, among other things.  You eventually learn what
>does what, and how, and where to look when it breaks.
>  
>

I agree with this. I could have saved myself many, many hours by 
re-installing, but I don't believe this is the way to learn things. I 
will always try and solve the problem over re-installing unless I'm 
really against the clock.

Sorry for the lack of details in my orginal post, I assumed the details 
I left out where not necessarily relevant,

thanks

Johann
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