> 127.0.0.1 Dell-Mint > 127.0.1.1 Dell-Ubuntu > There's your problem right there. 127.0.0.1 needs an alias to locahost. It should have looked something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost Dell-Mint 127.0.1.1 Dell-Mint or Dell-Ubuntu if you prefer.. how did you change your hostname and clobber the hosts file at the same time?