xfce4-session warning about an unresolvable local hostname

Guido Berhoerster gber at opensuse.org
Mon Jul 25 11:59:41 CEST 2011


* Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at googlemail.com> [2011-07-25 08:32]:
> 
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 00:49 , Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> 
> >>> It contains the (unresolvable) hostname, libICE (via libxtrans)
> >>> determines it through gethostname().
> >>> 
> >>> gber at linux-4kta:~> printenv SESSION_MANAGER
> >>> local/linux-4kta.site:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/4679,unix/linux-4kta.site:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4679,inet6/linux-4kta.site:35570,inet/linux-4kta.site:42074
> >> 
> >> Ah well, so the warning is right, session clients will not be
> >> able to resolve that name. This is not so much of a problem as
> >> long as the local or unix transports work, but it will fail as
> >> soon as the inet6 or inet transports are used.
> > 
> > True, but as long as only local transports are enabled the
> > check can be disabled, right?
> 
> 
> Should be safe, yes.

How about the attached patch? It's quite trivial, do I need to
open a bug about it?
-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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