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FS#32477 - [dhclient] Changes system hostname to the empty string

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Natanji (Natanji) - Monday, 05 November 2012, 18:29 GMT
Last edited by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Sunday, 29 December 2013, 13:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Isenmann Daniel (ise)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

I noticed this in conjunction with wicd: the current hostname setting logic of dhclient-script is severely broken. In my case, I have not configured dhclient to change the system's hostname based on DHCP in any way, but still I often get an empty hostname after a connection attempt. This is a well-known bug in other distributions, for instance in debian - see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609851 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635322

This is a very severe problem: many sockets of X applications are named by the current hostname, and this way rely on the hostname NEVER changing while the system is running. In my case I have to restart X whenever the hostname is changed, which is not acceptable.

I am aware that our dhclient-script might be changed due to  FS#31289  anyways, but I am still filing this bug so that whatever new dhclient-script we get will have this problem fixed. I also want to make everyone aware that there are more than cosmetic reasons to change our dhclient-script; it really makes it hard to work with my system right now.
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Closed by  Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Sunday, 29 December 2013, 13:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Solved
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 29 September 2013, 22:43 GMT
Status? Arch is now using a heavily modified dhclient-script from LFS.
Comment by Natanji (Natanji) - Sunday, 29 September 2013, 23:19 GMT
I have not used dhclient for a while, but I just switched back to test it out. I assume the dhclient-script is in the normal dhclient package, not only in testing?
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 29 September 2013, 23:30 GMT
There isn't any in [testing] at the moment. The script change was made back in March with 4.2.5-1
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 28 December 2013, 16:22 GMT
ping Natanji...
Comment by Natanji (Natanji) - Saturday, 28 December 2013, 16:40 GMT
I haven't run into any problems anymore. So we can close this, I think. :)

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