Network-manager changes hosts in localdomain.localhost since I change the root hard drive

[Le Gluon Du Net]

Hello,

I have a BIG BIG problem since I move my ubuntu to a larger hard drive: network-manager give to all application the hostname localdomain.localhost. The consequences: no audio, no internet...
If I change manually the /etc/hosts file, Network-Manager change it at the next boot.

To reinstall my system to another drive, I used this method:

1) compress all the drive: tar --exclude /media/* --exclude /proc/* --exclude /sys/* -zcfv /backupdrive/ubuntu.tar.gz /
2) I extract all the files on the new hard drive: tar zxfv /backupdrive/ubuntu.tar.gz /newdrive
3) I update grub menu and fstab with the new uuid hard drive

At the reboot, I saw on gdm screen: localdomain.localhost

I logged to my account and I had no sound or network. The gnome applets sound was disabled and the network-manager applet didn't launch. I tried to launch it manually:

#nm-applet --sm-disable

** (nm-applet:7869): WARNING **: <WARN> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
  Message: 'Connection ":1.58" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file'

To resolve the audio problem, I had to add my user in the audio group (why it runs well on my last hard drive?).

this is the groups my user have:
adm mail dialout cdrom audio plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

Please hellllppp!!! I don't understand the reason of this problems, I just move files with identical rights to another drive.

LGDN.

To resolve this problem temporaly, I uninstalled NM and I'm returning use /etc/interfaces.

[Le Gluon Du Net (legluondunet)]

I forgot: I'm using a jaunty distribution updated from a intrepid install.
Network manager changes the hostname only for the hard rive change.

Thanks for your help.

LGDN.

[Le Gluon Du Net (legluondunet)]

In fact, it's not a network-manager bug, but a bad reinstall of my ubuntu on my new hardrive.
I just used partimage to move once again the system on my new hard drive and all right now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

LGDN

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the report, thanks.