Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
If /etc/hostname is not present, /etc/init.d/hostname.sh will pick up the
kernel supplied hostname ``(none)'' and try to set this via hostname(1), wich
fails.
The obvious fix is to treat a hostname of ``(none)'' as, ehm, none, e.g. empty.
This will give you a hostname of ``localhost''.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38.2.wap (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii mount 2.17.2-9 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-13.1 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-13.1 System-V-like utilities
Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.12-2 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s
initscripts suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/tmpfs changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
--- /etc/init.d/hostname.sh 2011-01-01 06:34:59.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/hostname.sh 2011-05-27 16:50:18.603839959 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
# Keep current name if /etc/hostname is missing.
[ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] && HOSTNAME="$(hostname)"
+ [ "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ] && unset HOSTNAME
# And set it to 'localhost' if no setting was found
[ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] && HOSTNAME=localhost
