Bug 12037

Summary:	Fails to set hostname after install
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Richard D. Payne <rdp>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Richard D. Payne 2000-06-09 19:31:34 UTC

NFS install using bootnet.img. During the install I gave it the IP address,
netmask, gateway and DNS address. It printed out that reverse lookup
suceeded (on VT 4 I think), however on rebooting it sets the hostname
to localhost.localdomain. A quick look in /etc/sysconfig/network shows
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

However, running hostname at the shell prompt returns the correct value.

Comment 1 Richard D. Payne 2000-06-09 20:10:05 UTC

It's was on VT 3 that it printed 'reverse name lookup worked' (not 4)

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2000-06-23 22:52:44 UTC

hmmm ... I cannot reproduce this problem in test here trying both TUI and GUI
modes over NFS ...

does this also occur in beta2 ...?

Comment 3 Brock Organ 2000-06-23 23:17:03 UTC

are you trying to install onto a laptop ...?

Comment 4 Richard D. Payne 2000-06-24 14:08:12 UTC

No, this is not a laptop. I'll check if beta2 has the same problem next week.

Comment 5 Richard D. Payne 2000-06-27 19:32:48 UTC

Beta2 has the same problem. /etc/sysconfig/network still reads
localhost.localdomain.

This was a full KDE install (no upgrade etc...) via NFS. I entered the IP
address into the text portition, when the GUI starts it has the correct
IP and hostname present. However on reboot it prints:
Setting Hostname localhost.localdomain	[OK]

Comment 6 Brock Organ 2000-09-08 20:05:15 UTC

did you still have this problem with any of the later betas (pinstripe, RC-1,
etc.) ...?

Comment 7 Brock Organ 2000-09-08 20:05:48 UTC

(this problem was originally reported against the Winston beta1)

Comment 8 Richard D. Payne 2000-09-08 20:50:47 UTC

I don't know, I didn't do any testing after beta3.