It's not correcting the hostname and a period is a valid character. The first portion of text preceding the period is the hostname and the portion following the period is the domain.
If you don't have hostname.domain in /etc/hosts then this is a bug, in which case please reopen this report. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix => Invalid -- Hostname stripped after dot (inclusive) in installer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219564 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