Re: networkmanager hostname woes

[ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>]

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ng0 transcribed 2.3K bytes:
> Arun Isaac transcribed 0.8K bytes:
> > 
> > Thomas Danckaert writes:
> > 
> > > Hi Guix,
> > >
> > > since the change to networkmanager, I've been running into the 
> > > following problem: when I connect to a wireless network using 
> > > networkmanager, I can no longer start graphical applications 
> > > (starting any program fails with “cannot open display :0.0” and 
> > > similar messages).
> > >
> > > AFAIU, the cause is that networkmanager changes my hostname (after 
> > > DHCP?), in my case to “new-host2” or something similar, and this 
> > > seems to break the X session.  When I manually restore the hostname 
> > > with “sudo hostname <original-hostname>”, the problem is solved.  Is 
> > > there anyway to disable this behaviour for networkmanager?
> > 
> > I have the exact same problem too. If somebody has a solution, I'd like
> > to hear about it.
> 
> I don't understand your problem. This is public documented behavior of
> NM.
> Assuming that we build networkmanager with dhclient option/configure:
> 
> add to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:
> 
> send host-name "yourhostname";
> 
> 
> This always worked for me on Gentoo.

I read the full thread again, our problem might be different
but providing this file might be a fix which could work.
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