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Sunday, July 18th 2004, 11:49pm

KDE Installation on Gentoo

I'd appreciate any help you guys could provide. I'm a Network Engineer trying to get KDE 3.2 installed on a Gentoo box. The only reason why I'm running Linux is for Cricket (I'm sure I'll be posting about that later in a different forum...so look for me :-) Anyway, I'm getting the following errors when running startx...Again, any help would be appreciated.

Using vt 7
startkde: Starting up...
ksplash: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name passed to the constructor!
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
SetClientVersion: 0 7
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured

QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (-3)

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Monday, July 19th 2004, 12:03am

Re: KDE Installation on Gentoo

I think this is the important line:

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Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured


Does /etc/hostname exist?
If it doesn't then create it and put the name of your machine there.

I found this reference, search for "hostname":
http://gentoo.vidalinux.com/?q=node/view/35

And more general:
http://www.cpqlinux.com/hostname.html


Note: I found it confusing that some systems seem to use /etc/hostname and others /etc/HOSTNAME. The Gentoo-specific page mentions the lower-case variant.

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Monday, July 19th 2004, 12:18am

Thanks for the fast response...

I did the "echo tux > /etc/hostname" command upon initial Gentoo installation which configures the /etc/hostname file. I double checked, and the /etc/hostname is populated with my machine name.

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Monday, July 19th 2004, 12:20am

I just had a thought...Since this is a new installation, my machine name may not yet be registered in our DNS server databse....Could this account for the error message I'm seeing?

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Monday, July 19th 2004, 8:43am

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I just had a thought...Since this is a new installation, my machine name may not yet be registered in our DNS server databse....Could this account for the error message I'm seeing?

Not sure, maybe.

AFAIK it is advisable to have the name of your own machine in /etc/hosts anyway to speed up startup (at least of KDE). That saves DNS requests and avoids problems if the DNS is not available. I'd try that.

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Monday, July 19th 2004, 8:32pm

Are the correct permissions set to /etc/hostname? It should be 0644 by default. It does speed up the loading of KDE if you have your host info in /etc/hosts... At least on my box.
-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0