Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:27:05 GMT From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/172846: bsdinstall - setting hostname Message-ID: <201210180927.q9I9R5GL040631@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201210180930.q9I9U1TO046413@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 172846 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdinstall - setting hostname >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 18 09:30:01 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: jb >Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct 2 17:11:45 UTC 2012 root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: Setting the Hostname. The entered host name is not propagated to /etc/hosts (only to /etc/rc.conf), which causes xauth problem with X startup. note: this is a normal response $ cat .startx.log xauth: file /home/jb/.serverauth.35136 ... .. I had to manually edit /etc/hosts by adding bsdinstall's host entry "localhost.localdomain" and reboot. >How-To-Repeat: as above >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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