hostname and domainname (fresh install just days old)

[nichocouk]

Does a baselayout upgrade solve your problem?
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[podollb]

It might, but I will let you know when I can reboot. (I am still in the middle of my KDE emerge)

[Moriah]

I would like to refer people reading this thread to another thread that I started where I describe having almost the same problem. In fact, I believe it is exactly the same problem, only the symptoms reported so far are slightly different.

The related thread is:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-364155-highlight-hosts.html?sid=800fdf27018fb18fcc43df2c7fa6751b

I am beginning to thisnk that the problem might be related to the new baselayout, as I am running baselayout-1.11.13, and the resolver is not working properly for names in /etc/hosts. Also, my dnsdomainname is showing up as "unknown". I have tried it with the old /etc/hostname and /etc/dnsdomainname files, and also with the new /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname files, and it doesn't work either way. And yes, I have done the etc-update, and there is nothing left to do there.

[podollb]

Yeah nothing has worked so far it is still sets hostname to localhost.
Any other ideas?

[Kulik]

can you remove /etc/hostname and /etc/domainname, check the /etc/conf.d/hostname && domainname and reboot again?

Does init write something like Setting hostname/domainname to blabla on the screen?
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[Moriah]

I have tried both the old /etc/hostname and /etc/dnsdomainname approach, as well as the new /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname approach, and neither way works.

A little while ago, I tried my /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf with a clean system booted from the 2005.0 livecd, and it worked properly. The livecd has the Linux livecd 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 kernel on it, and I have systems running the -r4 and -r6 kernels, and none of them processes the /etc/hosts file properly. I now have 4 systems with broken resolvers, and one system sitting in livecd waiting for an install, but I am fearful to do it until this problem is fixed.

I am highly suspicious of the new baselayout...

[podollb]

With the /etc/hostname and /etc/domainname removed
and with teh /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname in place (with correct format)
nothing works.

When I reboot I see:
setting hostname to localhost

I have hostname running in boot runlevel (it was that way by default) and the domainname is running in the default runlevel.

I had an older baselayout that I upgraded and I am not sure if either worked. But I did have a typo in my domainname originally before I upgrade to the new baselayout.

Can a person just downgrade to an older baselayout and test it out? (is that possible I mean)

[Moriah]

I don't like the idea of downgrading, even if it fixes the problem, unless it is *THE* official fix.

The reason is because an unofficial downgrade is likely to be either undone by a later upgrade -- say to fix a vulnerability -- or would inhibit such a later upgrade from occuring, thus leaving the system vulnerable to attack.

No, the right answer is to fix the problem, even if that means an official backtracking to the old baselayout.

[newtonian]

I did the install with an older base layout and installed 2.4 kernel.
Then decided I wanted to install the 2.6 kernel so I changed my profile to the default.
--> Choosing the Right Profile from part 6 of the gentoo handbook

Checked my hostname in /etc/hostname(deprecated) and /etc/conf.d/hostname
Checked domain name in /etc/domainname(deprecated) and /etc/conf.d/domainname
Ran etc-update and updated all of my files.
Added my host and domain name to /etc/hosts.

Still, my hostname wouldn't load.

So, here is what I did.

[Moriah]

I did a complete cold reinstall and used the opportunity to run disk and memory diagnostics as well. Found no hardware problems, so I did the 2.6.x install from scratch, and everything worked.

Sorry I didn't post this earlier; this was several weeks ago.