Nameservices and graphics environment

[Andrew Cherenson]

In article <VISTI.90Aug15125013 at sauna.hut.fi> visti at cs.hut.fi (Hannu Visti) writes:
>I have tried to turn on nameservices under IRIX 3.2 and 3.2.1. I don't
>want to run named, so I only make resolv.conf defining domain,
>hostresorder (local bind) and 3 nameservers.

"hostresorder" is a new IRIX 3.3 'feature' -- it's not in 3.2.

>This seems to work fine; all addresses are found and nslookup finds all
>records for machines.
>
>But when I try to log in from the graphics console, it just hangs. It
>clears screen and displays the standard ("welcome to ...") text in the
>center of the screen. And nothing else. 
>
>There is lots of messages in /usr/adm/SYSLOG from grcond. The errors occur
>when running init.ps and there seems to be some problem finding the
>localhost's name.

Make sure "localhost" is in the named databases.