Changing the device name does not update /etc/hosts
Bug #922567 reported by
Manuel de la Peña
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1162475: [hostnamed] Changing hostname doesn't update /etc/hosts.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If a user changes the device name from the gnome-control-
Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch gnome-control-
2. Go to System Info
3. Change device name
4. Close control center
5. sudo cat /etc/hosts
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) |
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Thank you for your bug report, how do you change the name? The field is not editable there. The code seems to rely on http:// www.freedesktop .org/wiki/ Software/ systemd/ hostnamed and /etc/machine-data which we don't have on Ubuntu (yet) it seems since we don't use systemd