Ubuntu
netcfg package

networkless install doesn't set hostname

Bug #39243 reported by Odd A Olsen
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Bug Description

When installing ubuntu without a network connection the hostname is not set in /etc/hosts. Thereafter sudo breaks when trying gethostbyname. Solution is to start in rescue mode and edit /etc/hosts like:
127.0.0.1 localhost myhostname

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

Not sure if I picked the right part of the installer, but this should bring it to the attention of our installer guru.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I bet you went back to the installer main menu and skipped the netcfg step. (If so, don't do that; tell netcfg to not configure a network at this time instead.)

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Gary Coady (garycoady) wrote :

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 19775. If you have any information as to what part of the installation you might have skipped, could you please add the information to that bug?

Thanks.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I'm not convinced about this being a duplicate of bug 19775. What did /etc/hosts look like before you edited it?

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Odd A Olsen (oao) wrote :

The /etc/hosts contained only this entry:

127.0.0.1 localhost

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Odd A Olsen (oao) wrote :

I removed Ubuntu after playing with it for a while, so I can't check this up. There may have been more to this entry like localhost.domain. But I remember that only one entry followed the IP-address with no white space within the entry.

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