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--- Begin Message ---Package: wicd Version: 1.7.0+ds1-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software wicd sometimes changes the machine host name to its IP address (I'm connecting from a hotel). After that, various things no longer work, such as starting X applications (though doing that after a logout without disconnecting seems to be a workaround). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages wicd depends on: ii wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager wicd recommends no packages. wicd suggests no packages. Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on: ii python 2.6.7-1 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-glade2 2.24.0-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su ii python-notify 0.1.1-2+b3 Python bindings for libnotify ii sudo 1.7.4p6-1 Provide limited super user privile Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.4.12-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.40 Debian configuration management sy ii ethtool 1:2.6.39-1 display or change Ethernet device ii iproute 20110629-1 networking and traffic control too ii iputils-ping 3:20101006-1+b1 Tools to test the reachability of ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-c 4.1.1-P1-17 ISC DHCP client ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii net-tools 1.60-24.1 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii psmisc 22.14-1 utilities that use the proc file s ii python 2.6.7-1 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-dbus 0.84.0-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii python-gobject 2.28.6-4 Python bindings for the GObject li ii python-wicd 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-5 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel ii wpasupplicant 0.7.3-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends: ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests: ii pm-utils 1.4.1-8 utilities and scripts for power ma Versions of packages python-wicd depends on: ii python 2.6.7-1 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-support 1.0.14 automated rebuilding support for P -- debconf information: * wicd/users: vinc17 * wicd/users: vinc17
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 4.2.2-2 On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 00:00:06 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > This is a summary for those attempting to squash rc bugs. > > As of 4.2.2-1 /sbin/dhclient-script implements a set_hostname function > that unconditionally updates the host name if request host-name is set > in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf which is the default. This means that in a > default setup of dhcp any dhcp server can change the hostname. It is > known that this break (among other things) X11. It also contradicts the > documentation (man dhcp-options) "This option is only honored by > dhclient-script(8) if the hostname for the client machine is not set." > That seems fixed (at least to some extent) in 4.2.2-2: if [ -z "$current_hostname" ] || [ "$current_hostname" = '(none)' ] || [ "$current_hostname" = 'localhost' ] || [ "$current_hostname" = "$old_host_name" ]; then if [ "$new_host_name" != "$old_host_name" ]; then hostname "$new_host_name" fi fi I.e. if the current host name doesn't match the previous one from dhcp then don't change it. Cheers, Juliensignature.asc
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