I'm seeing this on a Jaunty system that I've cloned from one machine to another using tar. Since /etc/init.d/hostname already takes care of this, I don't understand why NetworkManager would ever need to trash a system's hostname. Relevant stuff from /var/log/daemon.log attached.
** Attachment added: "daemon.snippets.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31357144/daemon.snippets.log -- NM 0.7 sets hostname to localhost.localdomain instead of what is in /etc/hostname https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276253 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs