Description of problem: When system-config-network starts, it has no values in the hosts tab. If any changes in the network configuration are saved, /etc/hosts will be emptied. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.4.2-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run system-config-network 2. "Save" without making any changes Actual results: /etc/hosts is empty Expected results: The contents of /etc/hosts should not be changed. (or should have equivalent contents)
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'
The update works for me. I can add and remove hostnames without getting an empty /etc/hosts file.
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.