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gdm doesn't give good errors when there's no net

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Mar 17 21:15:03 2009

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:13:54 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200903180113.n2I1Dsc3028625@portnoy.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

After debugging kid-icarus, I said:
| So anyhow, gdm doesn't give useful error messages when there's no DNS
| and the clock is wrong. Is that fixable?

broder replied:

| Instance: kid Time: Tue Mar 17 20:20:40 2009 Host: REMUS.MIT.EDU
| From: Evan Broder <broder>
| 
| I don't know off the top of my head

| Instance: kid Time: Tue Mar 17 20:21:20 2009 Host: REMUS.MIT.EDU
| From: Evan Broder <broder>
| 
| If you file a bug or send mail it'll get people thinking about it,
| although I'd describe the issue as "workstation can't talk to the
| KDC", which is a slightly more generic problem than the one you
| describe

Need more info?

--jhawk

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