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#89 fedora-live-base: change static hostname to localhost-live
Merged 7 years ago by ausil. Opened 7 years ago by kparal.
kparal/fedora-kickstarts feature/kde-static-hostname  into  f25

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  # add static hostname to work around xauth bug
 

  # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679486
 

- echo "localhost" > /etc/hostname
 

+ # the hostname must be something else than 'localhost'
 

+ # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370222
 

+ echo "localhost-live" > /etc/hostname
 

  

  EOF

This prevents systemd to update it during boot if DHCP supplies a
hostname, which causes sddm to not start. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370222

Pull-Request has been merged by ausil
7 years ago

we should do a matching change in master for rawhide, or is this not an issue there?

You're too fast :-) Created as #90.

This seems like a rather drastic change, I just hope it doesn't break anything else unexpected...all sorts of things could be unexpectedly conditionalizing their behaviour on 'localhost' as the hostname...
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