Bug#289985: gnome-desktop-environment: GNOME can't resolve host name if internet connection is down

[Boris Boehlen]

Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: 63
Severity: normal

After logging in from GDM GNOME complains that it can't look up my
computer's hostname. I've got two computers connected to a DSL modem
with a router (includes DHCP & DNS). When it is off, everything works.
When I have connected to the internet everything works. If I plug out
the DSL cable the described behaviour occurs. As far as I could track it
down it may have to do with X authorization. However, the problem did
not occur, when I used KDE before.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  esound                      0.2.35-2     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support
ii  fam                         2.7.0-6      File Alteration Monitor
ii  file-roller                 2.8.3-2      an archive manager for GNOME
ii  gcalctool                   4.4.20-1     A GTK+ 2.0 desktop calculator
ii  gconf-editor                2.8.2-2      An editor for the GConf configurat
ii  gnome-about                 2.8.1-2      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-core                  63           The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii  gnome-games                 1:2.8.2-1    games for the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-gv                    1:2.8.2-1    GNOME PostScript viewer
ii  gnome-media                 2.8.0-0.2    Gnome 2 Media Utilities
ii  gnome-system-monitor        2.8.1-1      Process viewer and system resource
ii  gnome-themes                2.8.2-1      official themes for the GNOME 2 de
ii  gnome-utils                 2.8.1-1      GNOME desktop utilities
ii  gnome-volume-manager        1.1.2-5      GNOME daemon to auto-mount and man
ii  gnome2-user-guide           2.8.1-2      GNOME 2 User's Guide
ii  gnomemeeting                1.0.2-7      The GnomeMeeting Voice Over IP Sui
ii  gpdf                        2.8.1-1      Portable Document Format (PDF) vie
ii  gucharmap                   1:1.4.2-1    Unicode character picker and font 
ii  mozilla-firefox-gnome-suppo 1.0+dfsg.1-2 Support for Gnome in Mozilla Firef
ii  nautilus-cd-burner          2.8.6-3      CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii  nautilus-media              0.8.1-2      Multimedia goodies for Nautilus
ii  zenity                      2.8.2-1      Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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