On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:14:15AM -0000, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > I just upgraded to Intrepid and am seeing this. System would come up > and set the name to "localhost.localdomain" and then "localhost" even > though I had a name in /etc/hostname. > > Worse, my X session is started under the name "localhost.localdomain" > and the hostname changes. After the name changes, I can't start any > programs because the X server refuses to talk to them (unless I manually > set the hostname or use "xhost +") > > >From my log file: > > Dec 13 11:35:32 dococt NetworkManager: <info> Setting system hostname to > 'localhost.localdomain' (no default device) > Dec 13 11:36:22 dococt NetworkManager: <info> hostname 'localhost' > > (Evidently the name is correctly set by /etc/init.d/hostname.sh during > startup since syslog is logging "dococt" and not "localhost" or some > variant.) >
is nm-system-settings process running ... and what do you have in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf? - Alexander -- NM 0.7 sets hostname to localhost.localdomain instead of what is in /etc/hostname https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276253 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
