upgrade to karmic trashed /etc/hostname

[Nathaniel Smith]

I upgraded to the karma alpha today using 'dist-upgrade -d'.

After rebooting, my /etc/hostname file was rewritten to "njs-laptop" ("njs" is my login). This computer already has a name, and that's not it!

During the reboot it gave me the standard first time install questions -- language, keyboard, timezone, initial user creation. I was a little puzzled (perhaps the bug is that it did that?), but went along with it, and typed in "njs" as my initial user. I didn't see anything about host names there, but I guess that must be where the "njs-laptop" string came from?

[Nathaniel Smith (njs)]

Gah, I have no brain. I upgraded with 'update-manager -d', of course (not apt-get dist-upgrade).

[Nathaniel Smith (njs)]

This isn't the only host-related weirdness I experienced after upgrading to karmic: see also #432892, in case they are related.

[Nathaniel Smith (njs)]

And also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/432911

[arky (arky)]

Looks like duplicate of bug 432892

[Nathaniel Smith (njs)]

It may well be. But just in case you were skimming, note that this bug is about /etc/hostname, and bug 432892 is about /etc/hosts, which are different.