** Summary changed: - Using fd as hostname on installer you will broke your installation because of name collision + Using fd as hostname on installer breaks your installation because of name collision
** Description changed: - Now this might sound funny but i just installed fresh 9.04 server under - Virtualbox using fd as hostname and it did broke my installation because - installer will make LVM volume named "fd" and its already being used - elsewhere. + Now this might sound funny but I just installed fresh 9.04 server under + Virtualbox using fd as hostname and it broke my installation because the + installer will make LVM volume named "fd" and this name is already being + used elsewhere. - I did use fd as hostname because i was doing a new virtual host for a - clan named Frozen Dawn i wanted to shorten its name to fd. + I used fd as hostname because I was doing a new virtual host for a clan + named Frozen Dawn i wanted to shorten its name to fd. - Of cource server installer wants to default use LVM system to make - filesystems so i did choose it and it will happily make a fd named LVM - volume. + Of course the server installer wants to default use LVM system to make + filesystems so I chose it and it will happily make a LVM volume named fd - Now, this will break your freshly installed system because fd AFAIK - already being used on something else, it think floppy drive uses fd - name? Anyway udev brakes on a funny way so file permissions are broken, - eg. /dev/null has rights only with root read-write and network wont come - up because /var/run/network directory is not beeing created by udev also + Now, this will break your freshly installed system because fd AFAIK is + already being used on something else, I think floppy drive uses fd name? + Anyway udev brakes in a funny way so file permissions are broken, eg. + /dev/null has rights only with root read-write and network wont come up + because /var/run/network directory is not being created by udev. Also MySQL servers did broke down, etc. lots of funny and strange errors only - because i used fd as hostname. + because I used fd as hostname. -- Using fd as hostname on installer breaks your installation because of name collision https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402113 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
