[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#567411: network-manager: Rewrites /etc/hosts

[Sven Arvidsson]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.999-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

The new version of NM seems to rewrite /etc/hosts in a way some
programs, like Exim, doesn't like:

 Stopping MTA for restart:hostname --fqdn did not return a fully
 qualified name, dc_minimaldns will not 
 work. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup.
  exim4_listener.
 Restarting MTA: exim4.


This is /etc/hosts before NM is started:
 127.0.0.1	   localhost
 192.168.1.129	   zoe.varbacka	zoe

and after:
 127.0.0.1	zoe	localhost.localdomain	localhost
 192.168.1.129	zoe.varbacka			zoe

According to some old upstream bug reports I found, NM shouldn't
rewrite /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure if that applies to 0.7.999?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.9      high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                150-2      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.7.999-2  network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.7.999-2  network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          150-2      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.9-3    client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.52-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.6-2    administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager                  0.3-1      D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.7.999-2  network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit-1                   0.96-1     framework for managing administrat
pn  ppp                           <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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