Ubuntu
xubuntu-meta package

  1. Bug #194496 (win)
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 194496

Revision history for this message
NoOp (glgxg) wrote : Re: [Bug 194496] Re: [users-admin] Unlock -> "Could not authenticate. An unexpected error has occurred."

On 05/17/2008 12:14 AM, Jean-Noel Rey wrote:
> Have finally managed to solve that for myself.
>
> Have you checked /etc/hosts. With hardy, the initial entry was something
> like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 aaa.bbb.com
>
> when it should be
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 aaa.bbb.com <name of machine, e.g. ubuntu>
>

Thanks for the suggestion, but that was the first thing that I changed
on all my hardy machines. And actually I've found that:

127.0.0.1 localhost <machinename>
127.0.1.1 <machinename>

works well.