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regarding wicd sometimes changes the machine host name to its IP address
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Package: wicd
Version: 1.7.0+ds1-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
wicd sometimes changes the machine host name to its IP address (I'm
connecting from a hotel). After that, various things no longer work,
such as starting X applications (though doing that after a logout
without disconnecting seems to be a workaround).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager
ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager
wicd recommends no packages.
wicd suggests no packages.
Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
ii python 2.6.7-1 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-glade2 2.24.0-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager
Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su
ii python-notify 0.1.1-2+b3 Python bindings for libnotify
ii sudo 1.7.4p6-1 Provide limited super user privile
Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.4.12-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.40 Debian configuration management sy
ii ethtool 1:2.6.39-1 display or change Ethernet device
ii iproute 20110629-1 networking and traffic control too
ii iputils-ping 3:20101006-1+b1 Tools to test the reachability of
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-c 4.1.1-P1-17 ISC DHCP client
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii net-tools 1.60-24.1 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii psmisc 22.14-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii python 2.6.7-1 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-dbus 0.84.0-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-gobject 2.28.6-4 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii python-wicd 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager
ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-5 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii wpasupplicant 0.7.3-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.0+ds1-6 wired and wireless network manager
Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii pm-utils 1.4.1-8 utilities and scripts for power ma
Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii python 2.6.7-1 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-support 1.0.14 automated rebuilding support for P
-- debconf information:
* wicd/users: vinc17
* wicd/users: vinc17
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Version: 4.2.2-2
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 00:00:06 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> This is a summary for those attempting to squash rc bugs.
>
> As of 4.2.2-1 /sbin/dhclient-script implements a set_hostname function
> that unconditionally updates the host name if request host-name is set
> in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf which is the default. This means that in a
> default setup of dhcp any dhcp server can change the hostname. It is
> known that this break (among other things) X11. It also contradicts the
> documentation (man dhcp-options) "This option is only honored by
> dhclient-script(8) if the hostname for the client machine is not set."
>
That seems fixed (at least to some extent) in 4.2.2-2:
if [ -z "$current_hostname" ] ||
[ "$current_hostname" = '(none)' ] ||
[ "$current_hostname" = 'localhost' ] ||
[ "$current_hostname" = "$old_host_name" ]; then
if [ "$new_host_name" != "$old_host_name" ]; then
hostname "$new_host_name"
fi
fi
I.e. if the current host name doesn't match the previous one from dhcp
then don't change it.
Cheers,
Julien
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