Oops! (Re: Repair Grub Files?)

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> hmmm.  "No protocol specified" gives me a thought (though how it could
> apply
> is beyond me).  I have had the odd problem with apps that want to connect
> to a unix socket, and my colleague absolutely can't connect to his nx
> server, because they say something about "unix: not found".  So in
> my /etc/hosts I have unix as a synonym for 127.0.0.2.  This cleverly
> tricks
> apps trying to connect over unix sockets into using tcp sockets.  I'm sure
> it must break something, and it's no doubt inefficient, but it's the only
> thing I know that might apply and is probably different between our
> systems.

Well, removing that didn't make much difference - except that I could no
longer do "sudo kate" from a terminal in my nx session.
-- 
derek