Bug 173725
| Summary: | system-config-network corrupts /etc/hosts | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Anthony Green <green> |
| Component: | system-config-network | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.4.7-1.fc8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-01-11 22:20:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 198898 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 87718 | ||
I see this problem hasn't been fixed yet. While trying to reproduce it on the latest rawhide, I noticed that you have to have more than 1 entry in the host list (apart from local host) to reproduce. Create entries for "foo", "bar", and "baz". Save & Exit. Then restart, rename "bar" to "gar" and Save. Look in /etc/hosts and you'll only see localhost, foo and baz. Save again and gar will appear. This is still a bug in FC5. I've updated the Version to FC5. Is that the right thing to do? system-config-network-1.4.7-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-network' system-config-network-1.4.7-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Changing a host name in the Hosts tab and then using File->Save results in a corrupt /etc/hosts file. The entry for the host you renamed won't appear in the host list. Things get even more messed if you continue renaming hosts and saving after that. There's a logic error in how the host profiles are saved. Look in NCProfileList.py for ... # delete all other entries the user has deleted in the UI ..and think about the case when a host is renamed, since all of this logic is driven by host names. It turns out, however, the if you save _twice_ after editing, things will work out OK - so the following patch appears to work-around the problem. --- src/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py~ 2005-03-30 05:59:01.000000000 -0800 +++ src/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py 2005-11-19 10:15:25.000000000 -0800 @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ self.appBar.push(_("Saving profile configuration...")) profilelist = getProfileList() profilelist.save() + profilelist.save() profilelist.setChanged(false) self.appBar.pop() Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.26-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to the Hosts tab. 2.Add some hosts 3.Save 4.Look in /etc/hosts, and you should see your new hosts 5.Now, pick a host and hit Edit. 6.Change the host name (I've been changing the aliases as well, but that probably has no impact) 7.Save 8.Look in /etc/hosts again, and you should be missing an entry 9.Save 10.Look in /etc/hosts and it should look OK. Additional info: I can reproduce with redhat-config-network in RHEL3. It's probably also in other releases.