tags 635322 confirmed
thanks
Hello Vincent,
this bug recently started happening to me as well, and even after normal
shutdown-bootup cycles: my hostname is changed to "dhcppc0" (I suspect that's
what my router sends), and X applications seem not to work anymore. Thus I'm
also confirming its severi
It may be a bug in wicd or isc-dhcp-client, or both. I'm not sure.
In the default dhclient configuration and the one provided by wicd,
there is "request [...] host-name [...]". I'm not sure what it's
supposed to do, but changing the hostname is certainly a bug. The
dhcp-options(5) man page says:
On 2011-07-25 23:06:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I think the problem occurs under very specific conditions, since
> it does not always occur. I've just managed to reproduce it by
> doing the following:
>
> 1. I connected to the access point. No problems: hostname not changed
>(though the
Hi David,
On 2011-07-25 22:36:09 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> I'm currently in vacation, and don't really have a chance to fix/check
> wicd's code. I can only say that it never happened to me (neither to
> anybody else, since wicd's code hasn't changed since some time), so I really
> need to care
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:50:32 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-07-25 08:20:22 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> [..]
Hello Vincent,
I'm currently in vacation, and don't really have a chance to fix/check
wicd's code. I can only say that it never happened to me (neither to
anybody else, since w
On 2011-07-25 08:20:22 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-07-25 08:15:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > wicd sometimes changes the machine host name to its IP address (I'm
> > connecting from a hotel). After that, various things no longer work,
> > such as starting X applications (though do
On 2011-07-25 08:15:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> wicd sometimes changes the machine host name to its IP address (I'm
> connecting from a hotel). After that, various things no longer work,
> such as starting X applications (though doing that after a logout
> without disconnecting seems to be a
Package: wicd
Version: 1.7.0+ds1-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
wicd sometimes changes the machine host name to its IP address (I'm
connecting from a hotel). After that, various things no longer work,
such as starting X applications (though doing that after a logout
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