Bug 580014

Summary: sosreport does not work if hostname is without a dot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt>
Component: sosAssignee: Adam Stokes <adam.stokes>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: adam.stokes, astokes
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always trim the newline character from hostname none

Description Michal Schmidt 2010-04-07 09:53:29 UTC
Created attachment 404880 [details]
always trim the newline character from hostname

Description of problem:
On my system /bin/hostname returns a name without a domain name:
$ /bin/hostname
leela

This confuses sosreport, because it expects to find a dot (".") in the returned hostname. The 'hostName' function then returns the name including the newline character, which has funny results:

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Press ENTER to continue, or CTRL-C to quit.

Please enter your first initial and last name [leela
]: MSchmidt
Please enter the case number that you are generating this report for: 123

  Running plugins. Please wait ...

Creating compressed archive...
/bin/tar: leela: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
/bin/sh: line 1: -2010040711481270633713: command not found
sh: line 1: -2010040711481270633713: command not found

Your sosreport has been generated and saved in:
  /tmp/sosreport-MSchmidt.123-20100407114902-e888.tar.xz

The md5sum is: 8dc5aea5b03dff8595f096f9e368e888

Please send this file to your support representative.
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The resulting file is only 32 bytes long and is thus useless.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sos-1.9-1.fc12.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure HOSTNAME=somename in /etc/sysconfig/network
2. Run sosreport
  
Actual results:
sosreport does not generate a useful archive.

Expected results:
sosreport should generate a several MB long report file.

Additional info:
Patch attached.