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Hostname changes breaks application loading

Bug #467607 reported by Joseph Reeves
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned
sudo (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: hostname

On 9.10 changing the hostname via the terminal breaks the loading of applications until a reboot. You can see this below:

joseph@joseph-work:~$ nautilus

(nautilus:2068): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[nautilus gives errors, but loads]

joseph@joseph-work:~$ sudo hostname example
sudo: unable to resolve host joseph-work

[change hostname to example, complains about my previous hostname]

joseph@joseph-work:~$ nautilus
No protocol specified
Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:
joseph@joseph-work:~$

[Nautilus fails to open]

Revision history for this message
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

These are bugs in the individual applications, not the tool that changes the hostname

affects: hostname (Ubuntu) → sudo (Ubuntu)
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

(and is probably because security authorisations tend to include the hostname)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue would rather be in the xorg libraries used there

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in sudo (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug is old and Ubuntu changed quite a lot since, there has also been no activity here nor similar reports. Closing since we believe the issue as described is deprecated but feel free to file a new report if you still have problems in recent Ubuntu versions.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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