Fixed it... New issues

[Dean MacIsaac Jr.]

Hi it's me Dean from the "Hope I did this right" and "Why so slow" threads.    I reinstalled everything with 1 GB of swap just to be sure.  Everything seems to be at just about windows pace, (the goal being to see if I could leave windows behind and be as productive.), a few seconds for programs to open and once open, response is quick.  There may still be some tweaking I can do... gotta look into it.   However... I set it to boot graphically, right into gnome.  And as everything started, I got an error box...   Application Panel Process 1573 has crashed due to fatal error (segmentation fault)   It offered to take me to the site, and look at an error page, but it was a new error, non repeated.  So I rebooted and now it boots in text mode, I log in, startx, and first I get a box...   Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-80-ad-01-11-fa This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly it may be possible to correct the problem by adding x1-6-00-80-ad-01-11-fa to the file /etc/hosts.   HUH??????????  I have a cable modem if that means anything... so I couldn't assign it a static IP...   bypassing that message, I boot into gnome, and my "panel", (the application bar at the bottom, right??), is missing.  My 3 desktop icons show up, but the panel is definitely gone.  To continue testing I flopped over to KDE, and everything worked fine.   Any more insight would be great...  Thanks again,   Dean