I think Peter Wu is totally right. In addition to above two problems, there is still another problem with the patch that the present regular expression '/bin/sed -i "s/$CURRENT_HOSTNAME/$NETCFG_HOSTNAME/" /etc/hosts' can't handle multiple hostname case:
$ echo '127.0.1.1 ubuntu.me.com ubuntu' |sed "s/ubuntu/newnode/" 127.0.1.1 newnode.me.com ubuntu $ echo '127.0.1.1 ubuntu.me.com ubuntu' |sed "s/ubuntu/newnode/g" 127.0.1.1 newnode.me.com newnode -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452202 Title: ubuntu preseed install fails to set a hostname To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1452202/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs