[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#543918: Bug#543918: network-manager: Changes hostname on first run

[Michael Biebl]

Stephen Kitt wrote:

> I may have an idea of what caused the problem, given the behaviour you
> mention. When I installed network-manager, it dropped eth0 and didn’t bring
> it back up (I’m attaching the logs); if it then tried to determine
> whether /etc/hosts contained a valid definition for the hostname, it might
> have decided that heffalump.sk2.org didn’t correspond to anything it knew
> about... I haven’t looked at the code so this speculation may be completely
> useless!

I quickly studied the code, and this is exactly what happened.
When network-manager doesn't find an active IP for the hostname, it will add the
hostname to the loopback address in /etc/hosts.

You might actually call that a feature, so I'm a bit unsure what to do about
this bug report.

Cheers,
Michael
-- 
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