Gnome startup-problems/error after new installation

[Thomas]

Hi Michael

looks pretty like that you messed up the hostname of your machine in 
the network setup.

If you are able to use GNOME or KDE then you could try to resetup your 
network config and give your machine the name "localhost" and the 
domain "localdomain" bound to one of your ethernet devices.

I received similar problems after I had removed the localhost 
definition from with in the network setup under KDE/GNOME.

Hopefully it helps, this seems to be related to the client-/server 
architecture in X that needs a working network configuration on 
localhost (127.0.0.1).

Thomas

On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 06:25  PM, Michael Loose wrote:

> Hello to everyone on the list and thx for paying attention
> to this note.
> While trying to "reanimate" ;-) my iMac the horror below happened.
> As this renders me helpless and totally stops my shy attempt to
> run Linux on a Mac, i would greatly appreciate any help.
>
> Specs:
> dual boot Sirius/MacOS 9 on /dev/hda on an iMac DV450.
> Default "workstation-install" with packets for Gnome-Desktop added
> during installation process, Network-Configuration as DHCP-client,
> network device not enabled at boot-time.
>
> During installation everything seemed to do fine, the system boots
> up to runlevel 3 by default, after login and  "startx" the XServer
> starts (black screen and the cross-cursor appears, followed by the
> YDL-Logo) and the the following error-messages appear:
>
> 1. "There was a problem registering the panel with the 
> bonobo-activation
> server. The error code is 3. The panel will now exit."
>
> 2. "There was an error starting the GNOME-Settings Daemon. Some things,
> such as themes, sounds or background images may not work correctly.The
> Settings Daemon restarted too many times. GNOME will try to restart the
> Settings Daemon next time you log in."
>
> 3. "Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexspected error"
>
>
> And it leaves me alone in black silence...