reported bug 1053048. For cloud-init, and my own sanity, i'm going to remove the comment from this file. Also, it seems that fedora/rh also do things like:
<gholms> HOSTNAME="$(cat /etc/hostname)" <gholms> hostname "$HOSTNAME" ** Summary changed: - hostname intermittently contains comment from cloud-init + cloud-init should not write comment in /etc/hostname -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1052664 Title: cloud-init should not write comment in /etc/hostname To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1052664/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs