gnome/gui applets don't work after using changing network parameters

[Yang Xiao]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:46:26 -0700 (PDT), Basil Copeland
<blcjr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, I change the hostname.  It is one of the first
> things I do with a fresh install (change it from
> "localhost.localdomain").
> 
> --- Alexander Dalloz
> 
> 
> <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Mi, den 29.09.2004 schrieb Basil Copeland um
> > 23:13:
> >
> > > If one edits network parameters using the gui
> > applet
> > > (system-network-config?), the desktop basically
> > stops
> > > working afterwards, and no gui applets open from
> > the
> > > menu until the system is restarted.
> >
> > > Basil
> >
> > You change the hostname? Then trouble running X is
> > not surprising. Or
> > what else do you change?
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> >
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you need to restart X if you change the hostname, however, lets not
make an excuse for the bug in the gui tool, which is if you allow
people to change the hostname using it, should at least warn the
consequencies.

Yang