In article <20060504080618.GA24269@bass.mejeriet.home>,
Christer O. Andersson <christer@a-son.net> wrote:
>On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:58:00PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <20060503231639.GK302@bass.mejeriet.home>,
>> Christer O. Andersson <christer@a-son.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> startX gives me:
>> >
>> >startx?
>> >
>> >> "Xauth: bad dispaly name sparc20:0 list" 
>> >> "Xauth: bad display name sparc20:0 add"
>> >
>> >No idea about those...
>> 
>> Probably sparc20 is not in DNS or in /etc/hosts. Try adding:
>> 
>> X.Y.Z.W sparc20
>> 
>> in /etc/hosts where X.Y.Z.W is your IP address.
>
>Unknown host.
>But where does list and add come from?

Is your machine on the network? What does "ifconfig -a" say?

christos