[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#651053: Bug#651053: Don't prefer random DHCP hostname over system hostname

Jeroen Dekkers jeroen at dekkers.ch
Wed Jan 18 15:39:47 UTC 2012


At Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:35:17 +0100,
Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> On 05.01.2012 19:22, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > At Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:42:33 +0100,
> > Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Could you please attach your /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
> >> If you have the ifupdown plugin enabled (which is the default), then the
> >> hostname configured in /etc/hostname should take precedence over the
> >> DHCP provided hostname.
> > 
> > My nm-system-settings.conf is:
> > 
> > [main]
> > no-auto-default=ETH0MACADDR,
> > 
> > My NetworkManager.conf is:
> > 
> > [main]
> > plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
> > 
> > [ifupdown]
> > managed=false
> 
> Ok, this is your problem then. You have both, the old and deprecated
> nm-system-settings.conf file and the new NetworkManager.conf.
> As the old file takes precedence, and your nm-system-settings.conf does
> not contain plugins=ifupdown,keyfile, this might explain your problem.
> 
> Please migrate any settings you have in nm-system-settings.conf to
> NetworkManager.conf, and delete that file.

I can confirm this was the problem, after deleting the old file my
hostname isn't changed anymore.
 
> I'm not sure how you ended up having both config files. The Debian
> package at least tries to migrate the settings in it postinst.

It's possible that I downgraded network-manager in the past and that
might explain having both configuration files.

Kind regards,

Jeroen





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