Re: Temporary failure in name resolution
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 06:34:53PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> <tomas@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
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Rodolfo
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