Hello, I've got a VPS through a2hosting it was running Debian 11 specifically 11.7. Long story short I just had to reinstall it after a hard week of work so instead of doing it all over again on 11.7 I decided to upgrade to 12.0. I used this:
https://www.makeuseof.com/upgrade-to-debian-12-bookworm-from-debian-11/ the upgrade itself went just fine. I set my time zone that stuck and is persisting then went for the hostname, I am doing this via ssh, in setting the hostname it won't persist through a reboot. In the below output I've x-d out items like the device chasis ID and the IP I've made it a 192.168.x.x address even tthough the actual address is public. The one thing I see and I don't know if this is related is when I change the hostname with set-hostname hostnamectl -f and -i gives an error. #hostname server.example.com #hostname -f server.example.com #hostname -i 192.168.23.195 #hostname -s server #cat /etc/hostname server.example.com #cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment. 192.168.23.195 server.example.com server #hostnamectl set-hostname bookworm #hostname bookworm #hostname -f hostname: Name or service not known #hostname -s bookworm #hostname -i hostname: Name or service not known #cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment. 192.168.23.195 server.example.com server #perl -i -p -e 's/server/bookworm/g;' /etc/hosts #cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment. 192.168.23.195 bookworm.example.com bookworm #cat /etc/hostname bookworm #reboot #cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment. 192.168.23.195 server.example.com server #cat /etc/hostname server.example.com #hostname server.example.com #hostname -f server.example.com #hostname -s server #hostname -i 192.168.23.195 I've googled and not seen this as a problem, I am quite perplexed. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.
