Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 439094
Change hostname, system admin menu apps won't start. XAUTHORITY needs update.
Last modified: 2009-07-14 11:22:16 EDT
Description of problem: After using system-config-network (System/Administration/Network menu item) to change hostname from localhost.localdomain to e.g., beta.localnet the $XAUTHORITY file needs changes before any system admin applications (which require the root password) will work. If you fix the hostname in the $XAUTHORITY file, using xauth piped to sed piped to xauth, then things start working again. Not a nice solution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-9-Beta (rawhide 8.92) Linux beta.localnet 2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 #1 SMP Fri Mar 14 23:14:20 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. System/Administration/Network DNS tab 2. change hostname and save 3. quit and try to start it back up Actual results: Doesn't start, leaving a cryptic message in .xsession-errors. Expected results: XAUTHORITY file should be adjusted when hostname changes. Or using DISPLAY=:0.0 shouldn't add the hostname before looking up the xauth secret. Additional info: Presumably this would also happen if DHCP changes the hostname. This bug should probably be forwarded to gdm, X11, etc.
Created attachment 299250 [details] python crash dump Also got this crash after changing hostname. Did File/save, the exit (or maybe close the window), got "an error occurred, are you sure you want to exit" or something like that. Couldn't find anything about the error. Did exit or maybe close window, got this dump.
Also got previously attached crash dump. Clicking on "Debug" made the bug window go away and I had forgotten about it by the time I made the report. On another install, the same thing happened. Firstboot doesn't give an opportunity to specify NTP or hostname, as I think it does in Fedora-8. I asked for automatic assignment during install dialog, but got localhost.localdomain upon reboot after install, so I tried to fix it with system-config-network. This fixed the problem on the second install: xauth add $(xauth list | sed s/localhost.localdomain/delta.localnet/) Proving the problem is in $XAUTHORITY.
Care to betatest? http://people.fedoraproject.org/~harald/downloads/system-config-network/1.5.90/
system-config-network-1.5.5-1.fc9.noarch does not crash, but $XAUTHORITY is still wrong. There is a suggestion about restarting network or rebooting. I suggest adding a note that it will be necessary to log out&in in order to run any system administration tools, if the hostname has changed.
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