Re: some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

Kent West wrote: [When] I try to do a "sudo", even something simple like "sudo ls", I get: sudo: unable to lookup westk03 via gethostbyname() (westk03 is the name of this computer), and once I got something like "hostname does not exist", even though the command "hostname" reports "westk03"

Re: some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

Kent West wrote: The other day I shut down my Sid box and left if off for several days. Then when I came back to it tonight, I'm seeing some weird behaviour. For example, the mouse doesn't work, via gpm in console. I can't start X via "startx"; it complains about no /dev/tty0 device. And sure

some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

The other day I shut down my Sid box and left if off for several days. Then when I came back to it tonight, I'm seeing some weird behaviour. For example, the mouse doesn't work, via gpm in console. I can't start X via "startx"; it complains about no /dev/tty0 device. And sure enough, it doesn't