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

[Michael Biebl]

reopen 543918
Stephen Kitt wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed network-manager since it's become a dependency of the
> gnome meta-package. When network-manager started it nuked my network connection
> (which I'll report separately), and then proceeded to change my /etc/hosts file
> as follows:
> 
> 127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
> 192.168.1.2	heffalump.sk2.org
> 
> became
> 
> 127.0.0.1	heffalump.sk2.org	localhost.localdomain	localhost
> 192.168.1.2	heffalump.sk2.org
> 
> I don't think this is as expected...
> 

Sorry, was to quick with closing this bug report. There is indeed code to update
/etc/hosts if the hostname is not found in /etc/hosts

Could you send me the output of "hostname", "ifconfig" and /etc/hostname.

Thanks,
Michael

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