On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Jon N wrote: >> Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session >> opened for user lightdm by (uid=0) > > "(none)"? It thinks the hostname is "(none)"? That's not right. > Unless you named your new system "(none)" with the parens which > shouldn't work. > >> Dec 21 16:36:38 (none) avahi-daemon[2285]: Server startup complete. >> Host name is none.local. Local service cookie is 3853520009. > > "none.local"? > >> Based on the time stamp these happened during the most recent boot. >> All the previous lines have 'localhost-01' then all the subsequent >> lines have '(none)'. > > I think there is an error with setting the new name. Just for > verification what does hostname say? > > $ hostname > > It should return the hostname of your system. If it doesn't then > something is wrong with /etc/hostname.
It does return the new hostname. But, I started wondering about legal characters. If you remember my old one was 'localhost-01' but in my new one I used an underscore (_). According to netregister.biz/faqit.htm no symbols are usable except the hyphen (-). No accented characters either. So I changed the name again and rebooted once more. This time everything started just fine. > > I am thinking the hostname is empty for some reason. Not empty, but if it contains illegal characters it won't make any difference. I didn't find any error messages that would clue me in to the problem (like: "Warning, you have illegal characters in your hostname" :-)). I did notice on one boot an error message that 'hostname.sh' (in /etc/init.d) had failed, but I searched all my log files and could not find any reference to it at all. I guess not everything you see on screen during boot makes it into one of the log files. > > Bob Thank you very much Bob (and everyone else), Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANcvmg0G=m+no9myhoqvdmhspfvfrp+uxc-4jt+n-mewvot...@mail.gmail.com
