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
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:
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
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
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 doing
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
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
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 logs
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