RE: startx xauth errors

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Jesse Marquez wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Watson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:52 AM
> To: Doug White
> Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org; jmarquez_at_telenetwork.com
> Subject: Re: startx xauth errors
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Doug White wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 jmarquez_at_telenetwork.com wrote:
> >
> > > When I execute startx, xauth gives me the following error twice in a
> row.
> > >
> > > xauth: (stdin):1:  bad "add" command line
> >
> > Make sure your machine can resolve its own hostname.  THere's a couple
> > of name lookups in the xauth path and it'll spit this out if the lookup
> > fails.  Make sure the system's hostname is fully qualified and listed in
> > /etc/hosts, DNS, or both :)
>
> Hosts file looks good, any other tips?

try

telnet `hostname`

If that gives a host-resolution-type error, better check /etc/hosts again
:)

Otherwise we'd need all of the xauth messages.  It usually whines about
something else when it prints a message like that.

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