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From: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>,
	Thomas Danckaert <thomas.danckaert@aeronomie.be>,
	help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: networkmanager hostname woes
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:34:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170915123219.smp45l7r6kf4zo55@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170915121449.vkikuqpcstotovv7@abyayala>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-15 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-13 10:05 networkmanager hostname woes Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-13 17:01 ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-13 23:27 ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-14  6:38   ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-15 12:14   ` ng0
2017-09-15 12:34     ` ng0 [this message]
2017-09-16  6:57     ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-16  8:11       ` ng0
     [not found] ` <87h8w6ha74.fsf@gmail.com>
2017-09-14  7:50   ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-14  8:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-15 10:12   ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-15 20:34     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-16 12:03       ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-19 12:06         ` Ludovic Courtès

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