<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi, I am setting a FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) machine for a company referred to as xyz in the rest of this message. This machine is to provide all important services including a mail server and printing services. The company's mail service is currently hosted by an external provider, who also looks after DNS. At installation time, I set the machine name to xyz.freebsd10dot1.amd64 When I starting work on setting up a mail server , I thought it would be better to change the hostname to freebsd10dot1.xyz.com I did this, and added xyz.freebsd10dot1.amd64 to as an alias to the ::1 and 127.0.0.1 lines in /etc/hosts When I did this and rebooted, I found that the X server fails to start. There are some lines in /var/log/Xorg.log complaining about invalid configuration in xorg.conf.d, but nothing much more in the log except for a few control characters like Ctrl-O and Ctrl-B What could be the problem here ? And how do I get the X server to start ? Thanks for any help & Regards Manish Jain </div></body> </html>