Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 06:34:53PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> <to...@tuxteam.de> writes: >> > Where/how does this error message "appear"? >> >> As an output of the `startx' command. > > It would be lovely to see the *entire* error message, in case some part > of it identifies the program that produced the error. Many messages do.
/etc/resolv.conf is there again (the system created it) but the error message does not seem to occur any more. Even if it occurred again, I have no way to fetch it, cause it appears (it used to) at login. > Failing that, let's go out on a limb and guess that it's *your own* > hostname that can't be resolved. > > What is the output of the "hostname" command? It's: `thinkpad'. > What is the output of "grep -F $(hostname) /etc/hosts"? It's: 127.0.1.1 caterina-thinkpad.home caterina-thinkpad > What is the output of "grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf"? It's: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns --------- Rodolfo
