Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1664438
Title:
updating device name in system settings doesn't update /etc/hosts
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
probably a "paper cut" issue here. Issue exist on latest Ubuntu 19.10
and older releases, like 18.04 and 16.04.
Changed the hostname of a system recently by opening the system
settings tool, into details, and typing a new device name.
Noticed afterwards that running sudo commands in the terminal resulted
in an 'unable to resolve hostname' message, although the commands ran
successfully.
Checked and it looked like changing the name updates /etc/hostname as
expected, but it didn't update /etc/hosts for me - it still had:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 (old hostname)
Replacing the old hostname with the new one removed the message from
the terminal when running sudo commands.
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