Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!fernwood!oracle!news From: jlevine@oracle.com (Jonathan Levine) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: problem with console, help (PL6) Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 90 15:43:06 GMT References: Sender: news@oracle.com Reply-To: jlevine Organization: Oracle, Belmont, CA, USA Lines: 41 In article bill@allegra.tempo.nj.att.com (Bill Schell) writes: >Has anyone else had problems like the following under patch level 6? >I just put up andrew from scratch (patch level 6). All seems to work >fine except console and help. When console is started, it will pause >for about two minutes only displaying "Initializing default.." in a >blank window. It then will work normally, after displaying > >"console: gethostbyname failed (12:54:00 PM ) > >in its text window. Because I have the problem below, I tried using console for the first time today, and found that it core dumps (bus error) for me. dbx was of little help in determining where the problem lies. >Help does a similar thing. After I type 'help' it sits for a few minutes >and then prints out: > > "No 'localhost' found in host table; creating new window." > >However, localhost is in my /etc/hosts as: >127.1 localhost loopback loghost I have had this problem since I applied earlier andrew patches (unfortunately, I applied patches 1-5 in a lump, so I don't know which patch actually caused the problem). As far as I know, this problem does not occur in the unpatched (X11R4) distribution. BTW, my localhost is 127.0.0.1, in both my /etc/hosts and under yp. Jon -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- From the Oracle*Desk of: "Paradise is exactly like Jonathan Levine where you are right now, Oracle*Mail Development only much, much better." 4248 1 Ann B. Davis Drive -- Laurie Anderson