From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 Description of problem: When doing a fresh install of FC4 the installer does not give a chance to choose a hostname for the computer, but chooses a default name "noname", but does not include it in /etc/hosts, so GNOME is giving everytime you log-in an error. For newbies this might be quite confusing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Fresh install FC4 2.log in to gnome 3. Actual Results: Warning about the hostname not being written to /etc/hosts Expected Results: I should have been asked during the install for a hostname or noname should be placed in /etc/hosts Additional info:
*** Bug 160246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What sort of media are you installing from - CDs, images over a network, HTTP, etc.? Are you connected to a network while doing the installation? If so, does this network have a DHCP server? The network configuration screen should have given you the choice to have your hostname set by what you get from DHCP or whatever you assign yourself.
FTP installation with a DHCP router in the server. I don't think it gave a hostname to the box.I also don't really care about the hostname, but about the warning.
You can set a hostname on the network configuration screen. What's more likely to be the problem is that you're getting a hostname via dhcp that then isn't able to be looked up (in which case you need to set a hostname manually). Can you get the contents of /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases?
lease { interface "eth0"; fixed-address 192.168.178.23; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option dhcp-lease-time 864000; option routers 192.168.178.1; option dhcp-message-type 5; option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.178.1; option domain-name-servers 192.168.178.1; option dhcp-renewal-time 432000; option dhcp-rebinding-time 756000; option broadcast-address 192.168.178.255; renew 6 2005/6/25 17:25:52; rebind 4 2005/6/30 10:30:18; expire 5 2005/7/1 16:30:18; } lease { interface "eth0"; fixed-address 192.168.178.23; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option routers 192.168.178.1; option dhcp-lease-time 864000; option dhcp-message-type 5; option domain-name-servers 192.168.178.1; option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.178.1; option dhcp-renewal-time 432000; option broadcast-address 192.168.178.255; option dhcp-rebinding-time 756000; renew 0 2005/6/26 00:49:18; rebind 5 2005/7/1 00:45:08; expire 6 2005/7/2 06:45:08; }
Hmm, there's not a hostname there. What are the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts?
Now it is : $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=josephine.heim $ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 josephine.heim josephine But: I changed /etc/hosts and have added the 2nd line manually. And in system-config-network I changed "Get hostname from provider" (my translation from German, might be called another way) to josephine. That didn't took away the Message at the start of Gnome, so I added the 2nd line to /etc/hosts. I can check ""Get hostname from provider" and post /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases once again.
(This is a mass update of bugs which have been in the NEEDINFO state unmodified for over a year and have not been confirmed for a still supported version of Fedora Core.) Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.