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

Michael Biebl biebl at teco.edu
Thu Jan 28 23:09:02 UTC 2010


Am 28.01.2010 23:16, schrieb 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?

Hi,

could you please send me the contents of 
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf, /etc/hostname and the 
output when running
NetworkManager --no-daemon

Thanks,
Michael





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