09-05-2008
Looks like something in your gnome-session is attempting that, do you have funny stuff in ~/.gnome2/session or /usr/share/gnome/default.session or whatever your version uses?
As a workaround, maybe you can add 127.0.0.1 localhost to your /etc/hosts file. (In fact it should already be there, and lost of other things probably expect it to be there, too.)
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ipwatchd-gnotify
IPWATCHD-GNOTIFY(1) General Commands Manual IPWATCHD-GNOTIFY(1)
NAME
ipwatchd-gnotify - Notification tool for Gnome environment
SYNOPSIS
ipwatchd-gnotify [--debug] [--broadcast] --title message_title --message message_content
ipwatchd-gnotify --version
ipwatchd-gnotify --help
DESCRIPTION
IPwatchD-G-Notify is notification tool for Gnome environment used by IPwatchD daemon to display notification "bubble" when IP conflict
occurs.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d --debug
Prints debug information to standard output.
-b --broadcast
Sends notification to all active displays. Requires root privileges.
-t --title
Specifies title of the notification window.
-m --message
Specifies message shown in the notification window.
-v --version
Prints program version to standard output.
-h --help
Prints short help information to standard output.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jaroslav Imrich <jariq@jariq.sk>
SEE ALSO
ipwatchd(8), ipwatchd-script(1)
IPWATCHD-GNOTIFY(1)