From: ng0 <n...@infotropique.org>
Subject: Re: networkmanager hostname woes
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:14:49 +0000
Arun Isaac transcribed 0.8K bytes:
Thomas Danckaert writes:
> AFAIU, the cause is that networkmanager changes my hostname
(after
> DHCP?), in my case to “new-host2” or something similar, and this
> seems to break the X session. When I manually restore the
hostname
> with “sudo hostname <original-hostname>”, the problem is solved.
Is
> there anyway to disable this behaviour for networkmanager?
I have the exact same problem too. If somebody has a solution, I'd
like
to hear about it.
I don't understand your problem.
The problem is that changing the hostname after starting an X
session, breaks that session.
This is public documented behavior of NM.
Can you point me to the networkmanager documentation? Could help to
find a proper way to configure this (adding some configuration
options to our networkmanager service perhaps). I couldn't
immediately find anything helpful.
Assuming that we build networkmanager with dhclient
option/configure:
seems like we do: the networkmanager package in in
gnu/packages/gnome.scm has an option (string-append
"--with-dhclient=" dhclient)))
add to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:
send host-name "yourhostname";
I think some people prefer not to send their own hostname to any
router they connect to (assuming that's what “send host-name” does
:-) ). Do you think creating /etc/hostname instead is not a good
solution?
Thanks!
Thomas
