On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:39:51PM +0200, guillaume meurice wrote:
>  Hi, 
> 
> Last week-end, I've moved my computer : now it's no
> more connected at a LAN. From this time, i can open a
> session without the x window manager (with
> ctrl-alt-F1), but i can't open one from the x serveur 
>  : in this case, i tape in my login, my passwd and
> start. Then I see a black screen (as if the seesion is
> going to open) then the computer give me back the
> login window, without any error message...
> 
> after reading, trying things, it still doesn't
> work...so i'm posting here. 
> 
> any help for me ?

Check that
ping `hostname`
works as expected. for X to work, its hostname has to be a valid address.
If your computer isn't connected to any network, you can just add your 
hostname to the localhost line in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1       localhost my_host_name

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