2823 – 'hostname' issue when upgrading to 1.0

Bug 2823 - 'hostname' issue when upgrading to 1.0

Summary: 'hostname' issue when upgrading to 1.0

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Bart Verwilst

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Reported:	2002-05-18 09:12 UTC by Jean Jordaan
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jean Jordaan 2002-05-18 09:12:18 UTC

After upgrading from 1.0-rc6 to 1.0, some network services (samba,
zope, vncserver) were 
failing to start. It turned out that our
'/etc/hostname' used to be:

host 
host.domain

and this was now being interpreted as meaning that our hostname is
"host 
host.domain".

When I changed '/etc/hostname' to contain only:

host

everything 
was fine. Is this something to which portage could alert
someone who is doing an upgrade?

-- 

Jean Jordaan
Upfront Systems                         http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-20 13:49:02 UTC

nosferatu gnome-games-2.0.1 # cat /etc/hostname 
nosferatu.lan
nosferatu gnome-games-2.0.1 # 


Everything is working fine here ?

Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-24 14:04:47 UTC

Maybe it is an update to net-tools.  Anyhow, just for the record, your 
/etc/hostname should only contain one fully qualified hostname.  Let me
know if you have any more problems ... also check that you do not have
a /usr/bin/hostname that is *not* a symlink to /bin/hostname.  Thanks.

Comment 3 Bart Verwilst 2002-07-04 18:49:29 UTC

anything more on this? i'll close it otherwise